Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUCivilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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