Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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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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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.

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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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My birth was my first misfortune.

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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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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 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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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?

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To do is to be.

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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.

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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

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