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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
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
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Happiness Heart Opinion Philosophy
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
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
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
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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Beautiful Hide Learning Make Up Self Love Shine Woman
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
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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Children Danger Lying Man Teaching
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
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
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