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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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