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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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"True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."
"If I continually focus on what I don't have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it's completely full."
"On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
"It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace."
"Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself."
"Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him."
"It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more."
"Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing."
"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
Explore more quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
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