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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
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
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
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
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
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
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Happiness Live Myself
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
What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Goodness Happiness Opinion Ourselves Philosophy Self Love
I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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Force Freedom Himself Human Man Myself Power Thinking Willing
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
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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Alone Born Difference Happiness Limitation Oneself Pain Reality World
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation