I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIt is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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