My birth was my first misfortune.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo 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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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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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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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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