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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Blood Human Nature Price Worth
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
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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Character Myself Time
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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Democracy Reality Responsibility
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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Desire Money Philosophy Rich Seek Time
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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Born Free Greatness Himself Man Slave Thinking
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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Death Destroy Fear Greatness Himself Human Law Lie Man
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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Character Myself Time
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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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
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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Imagination Love Myself Time
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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Force Freedom Himself Human Man Myself Power Thinking Willing
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
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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Beginning Goodness Love Writing
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
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Instagram Captions Simplicity
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Goodness Happiness Opinion Ourselves Philosophy Self Love
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Happiness Heart Opinion Philosophy
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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