I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUOh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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