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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Deep Mad One Liner Sanity World
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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Imagination Love Myself Time
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
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
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Democracy God Government Nation Perfection
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
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
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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Character Myself Time
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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Freedom Mistake People Slave