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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation 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 Man Nation
The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
Man’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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Age Care Himself Judgement Law Man Philosophy Reason
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
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
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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Children Danger Lying Man Teaching
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
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
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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
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
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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