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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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 world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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