I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIt 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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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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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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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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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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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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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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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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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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