Every artists wants to be applauded
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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To do is to be.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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