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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
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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Alone Born Difference Happiness Limitation Oneself Pain Reality World
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
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
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
Every artists wants to be applauded
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Art Praise
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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Character Myself Time
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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Freedom Mistake People Slave
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
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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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Deep Mad One Liner Sanity World
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Equality Freedom Humanity Man Oneself Right
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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