Every artists wants to be applauded
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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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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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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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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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 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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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