Trust your heart rather than your head.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUBeing 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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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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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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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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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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