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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More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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