I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe man who meditates is a depraved animal.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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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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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 imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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