But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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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, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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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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