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
- 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.
- 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.
- Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
- Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
- People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
- Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
- Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.
- Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
- Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
- 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.
Best Quotes
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- Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
- The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
- The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
- It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
- I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
- My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
- Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
- I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.