Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUGirls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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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 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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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