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.
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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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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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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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 freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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