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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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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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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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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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