Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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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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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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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