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 ROUSSEAUI am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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