I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUA taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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