MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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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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To do is to be.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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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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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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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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