I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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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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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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To do is to be.
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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