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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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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 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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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 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 am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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