What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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In 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.
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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 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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