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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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 Regard Slave
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
Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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Beautiful Hide Learning Make Up Self Love Shine Woman
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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Desire Money Philosophy Rich Seek Time
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
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
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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Character Myself Time
If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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Civilization Deep Home Imagination Man Nature Philosophy
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
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Blood Human Nature Price Worth