A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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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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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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