However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUHowever great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation 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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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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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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