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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..

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
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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Citizen Force Greatness Imagination People Philosophy Soul World
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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Civilization Deep Home Imagination Man Nature Philosophy
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Heart Imagination Savage Talk
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
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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Born Free Greatness Himself Man Slave Thinking
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 Man Nation
One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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Drink Kiss Oneself Wine Yourself
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Humanity Liberty Man Right
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
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Civilization Discover Evil Hope Race
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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Born Enemy Evil Freedom Greatness Himself Nation