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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Believe Fantasy People Reality World
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
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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Law Man Material Truth
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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Act Breathe Existence Feeling Live Ourselves Philosophy Yourself
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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Force Freedom Himself Human Man Myself Power Thinking Willing
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Deep Desire Enough Need Peace Prison
What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Goodness Happiness Opinion Ourselves Philosophy Self Love
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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Imagination Love Myself Time
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Humanity Liberty Man Right
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People