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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
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
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
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
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
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
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
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 Happiness Identify Myself Nature
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
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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Democracy God Government Man Nation