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The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.Best?
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Follow the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.Best?
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Society's institutions, like government, schools, the arts, and the media, corrupt naturally good individuals.Best?
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.Best?
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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.Best?
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God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.Best?
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Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.Best?
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save itBest?
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.Best?
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.Best?
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.Best?
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One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.Best?
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.Best?
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Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.Best?
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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.Best?
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Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.Best?
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.Best?
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