It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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 wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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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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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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To do is to be.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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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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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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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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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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