Jean-Jacques Rousseau on choice
Jean-Jacques Rousseau86 quotes“Trust your heart rather than your head.”
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau 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.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau 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
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau 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 RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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