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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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Children Danger Lying Man Teaching
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
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?
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Believe Fantasy People Reality World
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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Feeling Happiness Identify Myself Nature
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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Law Man Material Truth
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Believe Different Existence Myself See
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Drink Kiss Oneself Wine Yourself
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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Death Destroy Fear Greatness Himself Human Law Lie Man
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
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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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Equality Freedom Humanity Man Oneself Right
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy

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