There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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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 man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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To do is to be.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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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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