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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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