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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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
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
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Drink Kiss Oneself Wine Yourself
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Act Greatness Learning Man Talent Writing
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
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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Feeling Happiness Identify Myself Nature
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
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
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
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
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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Destroy Equality Intelligence Law Man Nature Strength
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
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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Children Danger Lying Man Teaching
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
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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