In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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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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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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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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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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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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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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