I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUHe who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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