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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUNothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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To do is to be.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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