Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUHowever great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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If 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?
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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 hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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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 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 birth was my first misfortune.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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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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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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To do is to be.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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