I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUQuit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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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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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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