Top 34 Jean Baptiste Rousseau Quotes
#1. I didn't just invent saying offensive things.
Eminem
#2. Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#3. They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#5. Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one's true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
John Dewey
#6. The vine that has been made to bear fruit in the spring, withers and dies before autumn.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#7. Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#8. The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#9. It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be maintained in the peaceful possession of what belongs to him.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#10. The Catholic must adopt the decision handed down to him; the Protestant must learn to decide for himself.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#12. You were able to wait,' said Dantes, sighing. 'Your long labor gave you a constant occupation, and when you didn't have your work to distract you, you had your hopes to console you.
Alexandre Dumas
#14. Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
Peter Lynch
#15. Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#17. She felt a tightness in her chest and sent for Dr Simcox.
'What's the trouble?'
'Look out there, that's the trouble! It's so green and quiet and it's always bloody raining.'
'That's England, Mrs Mallard-Greene. I'm afraid there's no known cure for it.
John Mortimer
#18. Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.
Ice-T
#20. Damn it, Lettie. Marry me. For pity's sake, marry me and put me out of my misery.
Juliet Landon
#21. Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#22. Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#24. Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#27. Speak out your mind and your heart, you won't be bored.
Lights
#28. Any time I think out loud, 'I can't believe this is my job,' and remember I am a very lucky duck. Whether marshalling hundreds of zombies, doing crazy stunts or shooting big music numbers, I just feel fortunate to have made my passion my vocation.
Steven Soderbergh
#29. I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one ... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
Garry Wills
#30. There is another world, other than/ this one we choose to live in.
Li Bai
#31. If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#33. Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#34. Maybe there was a reason for me waking up and becoming a better person. Maybe it was because all along I was meant to find you and the person I was before wasn't worthy of having you. But I swear, now that I have you, I'm never going to let you go.
Amanda Stone
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