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“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”

“… in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.”

“I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.”

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.”

“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.”

“Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.”

“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”

“I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.”

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”

“I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.”

“The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty”

“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”

“All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.”

“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.”

“To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.”

“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”

“Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man”

“To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.”