Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUGirls 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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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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 real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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