Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo do is to be.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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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 man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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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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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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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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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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