All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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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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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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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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