Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUHe who blushes is already guilty.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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