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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Happiness Heart Opinion Philosophy
In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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Democracy Reality Responsibility
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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Character Myself Time
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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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
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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Goodness Hands Man
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Instagram Captions Simplicity
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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Believe Fantasy People Reality World
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
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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Imagination Love Myself Solitude Time
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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Democracy God Government Man Nation
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Act Greatness Learning Man Talent Writing