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The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Money, Giving, Pursue

I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rocks, Years, Giving

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sex, Artist, Giving

Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his members, the social compact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members." "We grant that each person alienates, by the social compact, only that portion of his power, his goods, and liberty whose use is of consequence to the community; but we must also grant that only the sovereign is the judge of what is of consequence.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Moving, Men, Giving

Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Giving, Community, Constitution
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1988). “On the Social Contract”, p.27, Hackett Publishing

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Giving, Desire

It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Food, Book, Giving

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Giving, Soul, Feelings
"A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 2., 1908.

To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Years, Giving
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.42, Basic Books

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