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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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Blood Human Nature Price Worth
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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Destroy Equality Intelligence Law Man Nature Strength
The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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Justice Law Moral Nature Place Virtue Voice
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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Act Breathe Existence Feeling Live Ourselves Philosophy Yourself
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
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
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
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