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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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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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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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The 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.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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