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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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It 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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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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