Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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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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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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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.
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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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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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