One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUBut 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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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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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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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 renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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