Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.Jean Jacques Rousseau
There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, is it good in itself In the second, Can it be easily put into practice.
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nature
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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
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To live is not breathing it is action.
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