Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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More Quotes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
One man thinks himself the master of others but remains more of a slave than they are.
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Looking at the stars always makes me dream.
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
