All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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 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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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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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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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