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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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Humanity Liberty Man Right
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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Citizen Force Greatness Imagination People Philosophy Soul World
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
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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Imagination Love Myself Time
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
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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Democracy Reality Responsibility
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
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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Beautiful Hide Learning Make Up Self Love Shine Woman
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
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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Destroy Equality Intelligence Law Man Nature Strength
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
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
Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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Desire Money Philosophy Rich Seek Time
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
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
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
Every artists wants to be applauded
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Art Praise
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 Regard Slave
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust

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