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Trust your heart rather than your head.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Force Need Obligation Philosophy
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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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Happiness Heart Opinion Philosophy
The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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Freedom Mistake People Slave
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 hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
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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Destroy Goodness Hands Man World
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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Believe Different Existence Myself See
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
What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Goodness Happiness Opinion Ourselves Philosophy Self Love
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
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
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 Identify Myself Nature

Trust your heart rather than your head.

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