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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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 good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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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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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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