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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUPeople who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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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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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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