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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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 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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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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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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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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