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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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