April 26, 2022

GREAT QUOTES OF ROUSSEAU

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF ROUSSEAU


People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.” ― Jean Jacques Rousseau

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“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. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau,

“I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. 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. Whether Nature has acted rightly or wrongly in destroying the mould in which she cast me, can only be decided after I have been read.” ― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.” ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.” ― Jean Jacques Rousseau