Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUHappiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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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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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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