What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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To do is to be.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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