What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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