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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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 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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