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
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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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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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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