There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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To do is to be.
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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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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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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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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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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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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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