The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMy birth was my first misfortune.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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