Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI may be no better, but at least I am different.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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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 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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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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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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To do is to be.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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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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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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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 am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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