What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIt is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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 sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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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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