In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIf there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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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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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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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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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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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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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
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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