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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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