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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Justice Law Moral Nature Place Virtue Voice
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
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
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
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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Feeling Identify Myself Nature
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Beginning Body Death Leaving Mortal
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
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
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
The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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Freedom Mistake People Regard Slave
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
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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Born Enemy Evil Freedom Greatness Himself Nation
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
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
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
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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Destroy Goodness Hands Man 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
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
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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Beginning Goodness Love Writing