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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
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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Freedom Mistake People Regard Slave
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Beginning Body Death Leaving Mortal
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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Age Care Himself Judgement Law Man Philosophy Reason
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Honesty Soul Taste
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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Blood Human Nature Price Worth
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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Democracy God Government Nation Perfection
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
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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Character Myself Time
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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Desire Money Philosophy Rich Seek Time
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
He who blushes is already guilty.
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Guilty Himself
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Believe Different Existence Myself See
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation