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 ROUSSEAUBut in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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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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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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To do is to be.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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