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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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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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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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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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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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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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