I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThere is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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 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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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
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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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