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
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere 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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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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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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To do is to be.
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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 is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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