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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Greatness Himself People Pieces Reality Simplicity
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Deep Desire Enough Need Peace Prison
If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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Civilization Deep Home Imagination Man Nature Philosophy
If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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
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
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
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
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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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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To do is to be.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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