I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUAlas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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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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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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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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