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Gambling is only the resource of those who do not know what to do with themselves
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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
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How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people in the world?
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The former breathes only peace and liberty; he desires only to live and be free from labor; even the ataraxia of the Stoic falls far short of his profound indifference to every other object.
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Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak.
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To live is not to breathe but to act.
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God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.
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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.
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The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.
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If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions..
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It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.
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More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty
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For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think in order to discover the art of speaking" - Rousseau
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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I don't know how this lively and dumb scene would have ended , or how long I might have remained immoveable in this ridiculous and delightful situation , had we not been interrupted.
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I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard, to a certain degree, against everything that might destroy or disorder it.
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Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.
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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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To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said.
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[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses.
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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Man is born free but today everywhere he is in chains.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Finance is a slave's word.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society's fault.

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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived..." (Bk2:3)
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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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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?
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There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.
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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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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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All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm.
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Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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