To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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 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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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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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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 world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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