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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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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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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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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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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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