The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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 good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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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
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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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