I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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.
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