What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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