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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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