To do is to be.
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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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My 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.
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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