There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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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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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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To do is to be.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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