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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

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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Destroy Goodness Hands Man World
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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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
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Goodness Oneself Survive
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Happiness Live Myself
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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