Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIt is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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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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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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 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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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