"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love. " — Sophocles

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains

Source: The Social Contract, book 1 (1762)

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain

Source: La Saisiaz (1878)

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry

Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms (1911)

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with

Source: Following the Equator, ch. 48 (1897)

The only security of all is in a free press

Source: Letter to Lafayette (Nov. 4, 1823)

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