QUOTES by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
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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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In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a guarantee of impunity.
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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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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.
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It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
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She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her
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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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It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.
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We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.
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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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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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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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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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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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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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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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I 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.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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