Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "Luați femeia cea mai cuminte, cea mai înțeleaptă, cea mai puțin stăpânită de simțuri; crima cea mai de neiertat pe care un bărbat, căruia chiar dacă îi dă prea puțină atenție, poate să o săvârșească față de ea, este de a putea să o aibă și a nu o face."

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest ex...
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need ...
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the me...
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Cities are the abyss of the human species.
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Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are thos...
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself...
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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme ...
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A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
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This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jea...
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the sec...
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Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is depend...
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I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves fr...
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The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest ex...
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
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To live is not breathing it is action.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
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Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lo...
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need ...
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often th...
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack...
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Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it. [Fr., L'accent est l'ame ...
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lac...
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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 tho...
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I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pl...
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they...
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
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We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, a...
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.
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Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the me...
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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
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A feeble body weakens the mind.
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. ...
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the know...
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Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand ...
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It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
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We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.
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There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in i...
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Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one the...
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal s...
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Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,-- Days of absence, I am weary...
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With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires ...
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we l...
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I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into rig...
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Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. [Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit ...
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into rig...
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack...
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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lo...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a m...
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
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You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
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A feeble body weakens the mind.
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
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Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may s...
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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the...
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Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
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Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'en...
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
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We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced.
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
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The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi...
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Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.
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The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleas...
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Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that...
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its dut...
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Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
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He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, the...
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Money is the seed of money.
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I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set befo...
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
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He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in i...
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There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ''Is it good in...
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they...
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others ...
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well
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It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not ex...
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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...
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; fr...
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
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The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, ...
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, ...
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Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the sec...
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Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
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The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely know...
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Cities are the abyss of the human species
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The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive eno...
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I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another
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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it
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Truth is no road to fortune
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The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who h...
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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous
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As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather ser...
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Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves
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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet ...
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
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The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during electi...
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please
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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specif...
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God made me and broke the mold.
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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken
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The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the ric...
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
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It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful
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Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance...
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In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves...
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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be h...
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She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I l...
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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...
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The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve en...
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Luați femeia cea mai cuminte, cea mai înțeleaptă, cea mai puțin stăpânită de simțuri; crima cea mai de neiertat pe care un bărbat, căruia chiar dacă îi dă prea puțină atenție, poate să o săvârșească față de ea, este de a putea să o aibă și a nu o face.

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