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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI 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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUHowever great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWe cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIf there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe 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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUNature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUAll my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUWhat good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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