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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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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
In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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Citizen Enough Force Humanity Respect Rich Worth
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Equality Freedom Humanity Man Oneself Right
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
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Goodness Happiness Opinion Ourselves Philosophy Self Love
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
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
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
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Happiness Live Myself

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