The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUOne does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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To do is to be.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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