Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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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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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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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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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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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