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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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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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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