I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUNothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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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 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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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