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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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To do is to be.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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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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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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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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