There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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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 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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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real 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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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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To do is to be.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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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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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 wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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