If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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