Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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To do is to be.
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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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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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