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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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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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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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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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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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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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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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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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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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