There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTrust your heart rather than your head.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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To do is to be.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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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 sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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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 hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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