Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIt is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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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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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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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