But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUEverything 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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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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