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?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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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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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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 good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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