Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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 be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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