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.
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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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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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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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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To do is to be.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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