MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUOh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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To do is to be.
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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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