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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 Rousseau

It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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Justice Law Moral Nature Place Virtue Voice
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
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
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Act Greatness Learning Man Talent Writing
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
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 Solitude Time
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
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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Feeling Identify Myself Nature
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
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 birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune 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
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
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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Born Freedom Greatness Man Philosophy Thinking
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Happiness Heart Opinion Philosophy
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
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
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
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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Age Care Himself Judgement Law Man Philosophy Reason
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
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
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