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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Book Hate Myself Teaching
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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Act Breathe Existence Feeling Live Ourselves Philosophy Yourself
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Beginning Body Death Leaving Mortal
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
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
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
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
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
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
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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Feeling Happiness Identify Myself Nature
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
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
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
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
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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Born Free Greatness Himself Man Slave Thinking
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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Children Danger Lying Man Teaching
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
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
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Deep Mad One Liner Sanity World
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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Freedom Mistake People Regard Slave
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
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

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