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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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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 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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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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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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