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.
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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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I 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.
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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