Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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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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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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