I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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To do is to be.
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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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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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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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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 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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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