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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Children Danger Lying Man Teaching
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
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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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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Happiness Live Myself
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
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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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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
Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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