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
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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 birth was my first misfortune.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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