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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.

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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Desire Money Philosophy Rich Seek Time
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Drink Kiss Oneself Wine Yourself
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
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 Identify Myself Nature
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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Destroy Goodness Hands Man World
Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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Age Care Himself Judgement Law Man Philosophy Reason
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
To do is to be.
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Action One Liner
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Greatness Himself People Pieces Reality Simplicity
If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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Civilization Deep Home Imagination Man Nature Philosophy
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
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective

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