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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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
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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Character Myself Time
If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Force Need Obligation Philosophy
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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Act Breathe Existence Feeling Live Ourselves Philosophy Yourself
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Body Freedom Government Law Politics
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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Imagination Love Myself Solitude Time
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
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Equality Freedom Humanity Man Oneself Right
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Change Evil Goodness Worth
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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Feeling Happiness Identify Myself Nature
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.
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Law Man Material Truth
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk
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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Freedom Greatness Man Slave Thinking
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Limitation Reality World
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective