It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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To do is to 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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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