Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseauwas a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 June 1712
CityGeneva, Switzerland
CountryFrance
men vanity mad
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
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There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
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God made me and broke the mold.
men vanity mad
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
world madness madmen
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
experience lived richest
The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences
cannot great however learned natural
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
goodness
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
adversity either
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
bad fortune good
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune
nations people
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
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Refiners had every incentive to get back up because there was a lot of money to be made.
criminal hardest ridiculous
It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
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The last calendar year that Exxon Mobil was the top-performing stock in the peer group was 1998, when crude oil, natural gas and refining margins all declined vs. the previous year.