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 ROUSSEAUEverything 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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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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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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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