A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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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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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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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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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.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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