“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Source: The Social Contract and Discourses
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Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 257.