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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Born Freedom Greatness Man Philosophy Thinking
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
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
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
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
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
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
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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Destroy Equality Intelligence Law Man Nature Strength
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
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
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
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