Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.
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Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.
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I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.
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Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
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At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
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Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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No one is happy unless he respects himself.
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The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
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As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
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Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.
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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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To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.
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Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?