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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

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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Destroy Equality Intelligence Law Man Nature Strength
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Act Greatness Learning Man Talent Writing
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
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Blood Human Nature Price Worth
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
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.
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Desire Money Philosophy Rich Seek Time
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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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 first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Greatness Himself People Pieces Reality Simplicity
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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