Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI 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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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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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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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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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