People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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To do is to be.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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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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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.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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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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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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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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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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