"General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason."
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"You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again."
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"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."
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"For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs."
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"Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all."
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"I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices."
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"The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart."
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"It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist."
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"A feeble body weakens the mind."
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"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."
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"Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?"
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"The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you."
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"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
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"Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma."
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"Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man."
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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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"We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
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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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"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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