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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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Death Destroy Fear Greatness Himself Human Law Lie Man
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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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity
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
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
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.
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Imagination Love Myself Time
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
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
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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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
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
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk