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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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Born Enemy Evil Freedom Greatness Himself Nation
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
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
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
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
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
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
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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Age Care Himself Judgement Law Man Philosophy Reason
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
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
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
If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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Civilization Deep Home Imagination Man Nature Philosophy
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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Act Breathe Existence Feeling Live Ourselves Philosophy Yourself
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
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself