I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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 man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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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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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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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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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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