He who blushes is already guilty.
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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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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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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 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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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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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