One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTrust your heart rather than your head.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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 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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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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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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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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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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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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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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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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