I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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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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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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