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"Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains." -Rousseau

"Men are deceived if they think themselves free." -Spinoza

"Motives are causes experienced from within." -Hume

"Man is caught in continuous cycles." -Kafka

"We are what repeatedly do." -Aristotle

"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life." -Hume

"I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one. It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves." -Thoureau

"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things." -Thoureau

"My townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited... for these are more easily acquired than got rid of." -Thoureau

"We are possesions of our own possessions."

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