Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI may be no better, but at least I am different.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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To do is to be.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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