I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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To do is to be.
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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.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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.
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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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