God made me and broke the mold.
Quote by Jean-jacques Rousseau
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God made me and broke the mold.
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Jean-jacques Rousseau Quotes
- Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.
- Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
- People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
- Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
- Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
- How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
- We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
- Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
- Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.
- Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Best Quotes
- I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
- I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
- One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.
- You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.
- Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
- Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
- In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.
- Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
- If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.