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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
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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Law Man Material Truth
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
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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Body Freedom Government Law Politics
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Act Greatness Learning Man Talent Writing
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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Death Destroy Fear Greatness Himself Human Law Lie Man
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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Imagination Love Myself Solitude Time
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Different Instagram Captions Myself
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
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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Alone Born Difference Happiness Limitation Oneself Pain Reality World
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth

Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!

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