The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIt is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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To do is to be.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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