Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUEvery person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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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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