He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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