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Whatever ought to be, can be. ↗

— James Rouse

#ought #whatever

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. ↗

— John Ruskin

#increased #loads #new #possession #us

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#escape #ever #every #every man #fire

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. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#beings #enterprise #every #fellow #fellow human beings

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#being a man #forgive #i #make #man

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#even #lacking #makes #think #unbearable

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#persecutors #rascals #religious

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#conceal #first #first step #innocent #later

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#born #existence #human #human being #into

I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#because #believe #brazil #brazilian #come