Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
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..
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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To 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.
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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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To do is to be.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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