I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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In 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.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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