There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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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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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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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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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 perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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