I may be no better, but at least I am different.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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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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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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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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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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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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