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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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MAN 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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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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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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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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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