He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe man who meditates is a depraved animal.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, 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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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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