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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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 we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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