What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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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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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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 perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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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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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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