Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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 wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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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