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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Law Man Material Truth
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
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
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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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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Desire Money Philosophy Rich Seek Time
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
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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Goodness Hands Man
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Happiness Heart Opinion Philosophy
I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Happiness Live Myself
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Deep Mad One Liner Sanity World
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
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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Destroy Goodness Hands Man World
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
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
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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Democracy Reality Responsibility