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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
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 am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Happiness Live Myself
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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Democracy God Government Man Nation
To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
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
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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Born Enemy Evil Freedom Greatness Himself Nation
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
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
Every artists wants to be applauded
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Art Praise
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
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
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 Solitude Time
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching