I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIt 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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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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