To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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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.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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 is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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