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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
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
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
My birth was my first misfortune.
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Born Misfortune Myself
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
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
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
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
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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Law Man Material Truth
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Drink Kiss Oneself Wine Yourself
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Greatness Himself People Pieces Reality Simplicity
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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Imagination Love Myself Time