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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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To do is to be.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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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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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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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