Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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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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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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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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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.
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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 would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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