All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUFrom this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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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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