Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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To 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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