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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Citizen Force Greatness Imagination People Philosophy Soul World
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
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
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
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
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Democracy God Government Nation Perfection
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Greatness Himself People Pieces Reality Simplicity
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
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
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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Age Care Himself Judgement Law Man Philosophy Reason
In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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Citizen Enough Force Humanity Respect Rich 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
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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Beautiful Hide Learning Make Up Self Love Shine Woman
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
Every artists wants to be applauded
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Art Praise

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