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Even knaves may be made good for something.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Age: 66 †
Born: 1712
Born: June 28
Died: 1778
Died: July 2
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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Supreme happiness consists in self-content that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.
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To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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