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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
Every artists wants to be applauded
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Art Praise
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
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Humanity Liberty Man Right
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
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
If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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Citizen Force Greatness Imagination People Philosophy Soul World
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
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