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
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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 world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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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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