People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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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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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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