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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIn respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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