Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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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 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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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