Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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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To do is to be.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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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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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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