"Gambling is only the resource of those who do not know what to do with themselves."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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."
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"Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood."
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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
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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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"We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread."
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"There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom."
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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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"Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion." |
"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." |
"I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery."
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"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."
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"There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend."
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"Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable."
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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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"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." |
"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they."
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"Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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 given up for lost."
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"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."
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