"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

Explore more quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

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"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."

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"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."

"The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy."