To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe 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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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To do is to be.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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