Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Quote by Jean-jacques Rousseau
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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
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Jean-jacques Rousseau Quotes
- Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
- No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
- Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
- Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
- 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.
- 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.
- Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
- No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
- Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
- What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Best Quotes
- A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
- I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
- Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
- All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
- In time of war the laws are silent.
- We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
- The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
- In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
- I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.