Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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