"Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves."
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"She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her"
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"Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity."
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"I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily."
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"Base souls have no faith in great individuals."
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"Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free."
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"The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence."
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"Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited."
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"The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin."
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"Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way."
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"It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me."
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"An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth."
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"Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse."
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"Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family."
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"Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists."
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"Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once."
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"Sacrifice life to truth."
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"I do not know is a phrase which becomes us."
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"Equality, because without it there can be no liberty."
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"The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights."
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