Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUPeople who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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 prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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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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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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