Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMan’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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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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