Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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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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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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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 hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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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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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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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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My birth was my first misfortune.
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