I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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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 perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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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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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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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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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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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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