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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMAN 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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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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