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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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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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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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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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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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