I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUEvery person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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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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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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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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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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