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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"More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues."
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"I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices."
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"To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness:"
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"All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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"Trust your heart rather than your head."
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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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"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
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"It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost."
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"To live is not to breathe but to act." |
"Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty." |
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
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"Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it."
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"In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself."
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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about."
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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."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"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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"What wisdom can you find greater than kindness." |
"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 perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me."
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"The truth brings no man a fortune."
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It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me
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