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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Book Hate Myself Teaching
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
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Humanity Liberty Man Right
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
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
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Equality Freedom Humanity Man Oneself Right
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
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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Goodness Hands Man
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
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
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
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
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

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

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