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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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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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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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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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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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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