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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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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.
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Freedom Mistake People Regard Slave
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
But 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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Citizen Force Greatness Imagination People Philosophy Soul World
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Happiness Live Myself
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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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.
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Freedom Mistake People Slave
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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