Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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