To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUIn 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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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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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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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Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
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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. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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