He who blushes is already guilty.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIf 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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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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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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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