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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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Justice Law Moral Nature Place Virtue Voice
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Happiness Heart Opinion Philosophy
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Law Man Material Truth
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
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Feeling Happiness Identify Myself Nature
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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Born Freedom Greatness Man Philosophy Thinking
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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Believe Fantasy People Reality World
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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Freedom Greatness Man Slave Thinking
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective