Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThose that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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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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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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