Trust your heart rather than your head.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo do is to be.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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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 do is to be.
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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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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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