Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe 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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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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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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