My birth was my first misfortune.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMan is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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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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To do is to be.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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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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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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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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