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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

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
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Act Greatness Learning Man Talent Writing
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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Imagination Love Myself Time
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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Freedom Greatness Man Slave 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
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
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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Beginning Goodness Love Writing
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
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
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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Death Destroy Fear Greatness Himself Human Law Lie Man
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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Believe Enough Greatness Himself People Pieces Reality Simplicity
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
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
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
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