I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUNature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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 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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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.
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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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