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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I 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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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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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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.
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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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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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