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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI 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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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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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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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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To do is to be.
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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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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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