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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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 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
MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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Freedom Greatness Man Slave Thinking
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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Citizen Force Greatness Imagination People Philosophy Soul World
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
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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Imagination Love Myself Time
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Drink Kiss Oneself Wine Yourself
To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Happiness Live Myself
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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Age Care Himself Judgement Law Man Philosophy Reason
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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Character Myself Time
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Happiness Heart Opinion Philosophy
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself

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