I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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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 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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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