Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThose that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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 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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The 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 hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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He 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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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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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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