The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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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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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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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 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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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.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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