It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUPeople who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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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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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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