Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUHe 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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 be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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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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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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It 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.
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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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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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