What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIf 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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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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