There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWe cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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