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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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