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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
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 Solitude Time
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
It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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Justice Law Moral Nature Place Virtue Voice
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
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
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
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
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
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Greatness Kindness Wisdom
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
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
The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking