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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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
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
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Believe Different Existence Myself See
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Happiness Heart Opinion Philosophy
My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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Imagination Love Myself Time
What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Goodness Happiness Opinion Ourselves Philosophy Self Love
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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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To do is to be.
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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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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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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk
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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Death Destroy Fear Greatness Himself Human Law Lie Man
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
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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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It 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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