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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUOne 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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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