There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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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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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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