Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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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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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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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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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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