One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUOne does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUOr, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIf 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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUNothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI may be no better, but at least I am different.
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
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUEvery person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUQuit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhy should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMan is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUNature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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