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.
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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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