To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe 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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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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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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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