The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMy love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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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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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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