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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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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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