To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUHowever great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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 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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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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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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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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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