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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

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
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
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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Feeling Identify Myself Nature
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Democracy God Government Man Nation
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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Freedom Mistake People Slave
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Humanity Liberty Man Right
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
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
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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Civilization Deep Home Imagination Man Nature Philosophy
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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Citizen Force Greatness Imagination People Philosophy Soul World
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive