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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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 Slave
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 Solitude Time
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
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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Civilization Deep Home Imagination Man Nature Philosophy
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Greatness Himself People Pieces Reality Simplicity
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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