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 ROUSSEAUThe 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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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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To do is to be.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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