A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUBut 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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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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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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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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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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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