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To do is to be.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
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
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
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
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
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
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Believe Different Existence Myself See
We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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Children Danger Lying Man Teaching
I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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Force Freedom Himself Human Man Myself Power Thinking Willing
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
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
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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Justice Law Moral Nature Place Virtue Voice

To do is to be.

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