To do is to be.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUNature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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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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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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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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