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 ROUSSEAUThere is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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 perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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