Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI may be no better, but at least I am different.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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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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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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