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- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: French writer and philosopher
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.
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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
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I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
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It is only in our decisions that we are important.
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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
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Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
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Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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I only drink to make other people seem more interesting.
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