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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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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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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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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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