Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUA taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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