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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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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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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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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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