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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUHe 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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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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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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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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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