Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThose that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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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 be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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