Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMan’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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To do is to be.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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