I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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