There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUFrom this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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