I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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To do is to be.
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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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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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