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.
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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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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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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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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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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