A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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If 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.
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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 write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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