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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Goodness Happiness Opinion Ourselves Philosophy Self Love
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
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
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Greatness People Philosophy Talk
Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness Nature People
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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Believe Fantasy People Reality World
All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Misfortune Myself Thinking Trust
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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Born Freedom Greatness Man Philosophy Thinking
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Happiness Heart Opinion Philosophy
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
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 Identify Myself Nature
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
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
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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Freedom Mistake People Slave
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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