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My birth was my first misfortune.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Beginning Body Death Leaving Mortal
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
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Difficult Live Oneself Survive Thinking
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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God Himself Myself Religious Spiritual
The 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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Existence Himself Judgement Live Man Talk
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Freedom Liberty Nation
The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Animal Man
Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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Age Care Himself Judgement Law Man Philosophy Reason
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Character Faith Loyalty Promise Word
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Nature Ourselves Perspective
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Children Friendship Myself Quit Wake Up
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Life Person Right Risk

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