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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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Justice Law Moral Nature Place Virtue Voice
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Food Goodness Happiness Money
Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Life Live Man
The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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Alone Born Difference Happiness Limitation Oneself Pain Reality World
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
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
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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Born Free Greatness Himself Man Slave Thinking
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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Democracy God Government Nation Perfection
To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Equality Freedom Humanity Man Oneself Right
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Body Freedom Government Law Politics
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Hate Myself Talk Teaching
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Dignity Goodness Man Pay Truth
I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Happiness Live Myself
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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Desire Money Philosophy Rich Seek Time
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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Freedom Greatness Man Slave Thinking
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