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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Deep Desire Enough Need Peace Prison
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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Imagination Love Myself Solitude Time
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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Imagination Love Myself Time
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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Character Myself Time
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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Destroy Equality Intelligence Law Man Nature Strength
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Act Greatness Learning Man Talent Writing
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
Every artists wants to be applauded
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Art Praise
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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Beginning Goodness Love Writing
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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Act Breathe Existence Feeling Live Ourselves Philosophy Yourself

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