To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIn 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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 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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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 may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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 hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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