If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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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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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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