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
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMy love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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To do is to be.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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 never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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