I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUOne does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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 liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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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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