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Trust your heart rather than your head.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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Alone Born Difference Happiness Limitation Oneself Pain Reality World
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Democracy God Government Nation Perfection
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Happiness Live Myself
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
Every artists wants to be applauded
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Art Praise
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Body Freedom Government Law Politics
To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Deep Mad One Liner Sanity World
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Law Man Material Truth
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 Happiness Identify Myself Nature
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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Democracy Reality Responsibility
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom

Trust your heart rather than your head.

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