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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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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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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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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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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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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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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 perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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 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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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