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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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Alone Born Difference Happiness Limitation Oneself Pain Reality World
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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Believe Fantasy People Reality World
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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Deep Desire Enough Need Peace Prison
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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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Believe Enough Greatness Himself People Pieces Reality Simplicity
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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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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Feeling Happiness Identify Myself Nature
Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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