Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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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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To do is to be.
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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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