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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

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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Character Myself Time
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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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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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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Freedom Mistake People Regard Slave
If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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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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Character Myself Time
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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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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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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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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