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" Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers. "
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Right
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" Base souls have no faith in great individuals. "
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" People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. "
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" All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows. "
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" Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. "
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" Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. "
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" The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. "
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" We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. "
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" I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about. "
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" Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. "
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" Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. "
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Risk
Own
" It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. "
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Difficult
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" I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. "
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Project
" You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. "
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You
Land
" It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. "
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Action
Majority
" I only see clearly what I remember. "
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See
Remember
" Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. "
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Good Cook
Cook
" Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. "
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Take
Always
Will
" Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. "
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Guilty
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" Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect. "
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Duty
Expect
Thankful
" Childhood is the sleep of reason. "
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Sleep
Childhood
" The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. "
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Only
" Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. "
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Fame
Often
" We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. "
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Should
Children
" Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. "
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You
" Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. "
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Life
Women
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Our
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" O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. "
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