What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI 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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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