Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIf 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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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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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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To do is to be.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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