In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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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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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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To do is to be.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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