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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Imagination Love Myself Time
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
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
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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Destroy Equality Intelligence Law Man Nature Strength
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
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
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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Destroy Goodness Hands Man World
Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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Age Care Himself Judgement Law Man Philosophy Reason
It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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Born Enemy Evil Freedom Greatness Himself Nation
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive