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..
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUOr, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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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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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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