Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUQuit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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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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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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