It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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 may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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