The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUA taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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