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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Character Myself Time
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
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
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
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Act Greatness Learning Man Talent Writing
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
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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Freedom Greatness Man Slave Thinking
I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Danger Liberty Myself Peace Slave
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
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
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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Democracy Reality Responsibility
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
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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Believe Enough Man People Pieces Simplicity