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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.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Believe #Being Different #Venture
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“If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#People #Majority #Groups
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“Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Freedom #People #Liberty
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“I may be no better, but at least I am different.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Different #May
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“Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Life #Philosophical #Men
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“A feeble body weakens the mind.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Mind #Body
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“The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Sweet #Philosophical #Animal
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“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Art #Philosophical #Reality
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“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Inspirational #Motivational #Freedom
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“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Freedom #Political #Liberty
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“We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#People #Wigs #Bread
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“Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Justice #Judging #Social Justice
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“Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Simple #Vanity #Vain
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“Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Philosophical #Opposites #Risk
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“I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Real #Passion #Heart
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“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Children #Men #Evil
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“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Gratitude #Philosophical #Inspirational Christmas
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“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Life #Faith #Philosophical
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“Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Motivational #Trust #Nature
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“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Hate #Book #Philosophical
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“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Truth #Philosophical #Infinity
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“God made me and broke the mold.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Mold #Broke #Made
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“Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Religious #Believer
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“The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Causes #Body #Politics
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“Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Innocence #Guilty #Ashamed
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“Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Men #Two #Physicians
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“Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Heart #Power
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“Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Misfortunes
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“I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Hate #Book #People
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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..”
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#Melting #Delirium #Ecstasy
