I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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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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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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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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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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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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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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To do is to be.
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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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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 prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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