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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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Children Danger Lying Man Teaching
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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Civilization Deep Home Imagination Man Nature Philosophy
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Beginning Body Death Leaving Mortal
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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Beginning Goodness Love Writing
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
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
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
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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Destroy Goodness Hands Man World
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Deep Mad One Liner Sanity World

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