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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Humanity Liberty Man Right
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Deep Desire Enough Need Peace Prison
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Choice Man Myself
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
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
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 Identify Myself Nature
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
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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Force Freedom Himself Human Man Myself Power Thinking Willing
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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Death Destroy Fear Greatness Himself Human Law Lie Man
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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Citizen Enough Force Humanity Respect Rich Worth
The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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