A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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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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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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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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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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