The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUAlas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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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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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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