To do is to be.
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 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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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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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