Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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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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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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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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