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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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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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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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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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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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