From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUEverything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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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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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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