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A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.
Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array, -
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.
Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.
Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.
Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.
Abstract truth is the eye of reason.
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.
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The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.
Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart.
