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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every artists wants to be applauded
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Art Praise
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Drink Kiss Oneself Wine Yourself
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
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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Democracy Reality Responsibility
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Blood Human Nature Price Worth
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Law Man Material Truth
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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Democracy God Government Nation Perfection
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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Destroy Goodness Hands Man World
We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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Children Danger Lying Man Teaching
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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Feeling Identify Myself Nature
If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
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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Born Freedom Greatness Man Philosophy Thinking
To do is to be.
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