It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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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 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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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