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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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 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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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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