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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
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
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
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Happiness Heart Opinion Philosophy
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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Beginning Goodness Love Writing
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 may be no better, but at least I am different.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Deep Mad One Liner Sanity World
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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Destroy Goodness Hands Man World
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Body Freedom Government Law Politics
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
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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Democracy God Government Man Nation
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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Born Enemy Evil Freedom Greatness Himself Nation

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