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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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 Solitude Time
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
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Believe Different Existence Myself See
It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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Justice Law Moral Nature Place Virtue Voice
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Different Instagram Captions Myself
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
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
Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Choice Heart Inspirational Trust
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
If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Born Freedom Man Philosophy
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
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
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