To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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