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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Drink Kiss Oneself Wine Yourself
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
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
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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Act Breathe Existence Feeling Live Ourselves Philosophy Yourself
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 Happiness Identify Myself Nature
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
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
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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Born Free Greatness Himself Man Slave Thinking
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
In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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Citizen Enough Force Humanity Respect Rich Worth
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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Destroy Equality Intelligence Law Man Nature Strength
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
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
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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Body Freedom Government Law Politics
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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Born Freedom Greatness Man Philosophy Thinking
I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Happiness Live Myself
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
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
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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Democracy Reality Responsibility