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
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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.
men years giving
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
happiness running years
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
rocks years giving
I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.
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.
incentive money
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.
body conscience passions voice
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
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Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.