To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIt 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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To do is to be.
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
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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 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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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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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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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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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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