I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUOh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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To do is to be.
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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