Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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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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.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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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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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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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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To do is to be.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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