Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUEverything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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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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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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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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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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