But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUPeople who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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 there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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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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