It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIt is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUNature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIn respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWe cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIf there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUEverything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUFrom this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThose that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIn any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUNature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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