To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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 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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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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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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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