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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every artists wants to be applauded
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Art Praise
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Act Greatness Learning Man Talent Writing
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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Feeling Identify Myself Nature
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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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity
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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Believe Fantasy People Reality World
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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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk
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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Law Man Material Truth
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Humanity Liberty Man Right
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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Destroy Goodness Hands Man World
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
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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Death Destroy Fear Greatness Himself Human Law Lie Man
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
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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Alone Born Difference Happiness Limitation Oneself Pain Reality World
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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Citizen Enough Force Humanity Respect Rich Worth