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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe 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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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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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To do is to be.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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 hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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