The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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