Trust your heart rather than your head.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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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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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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