JR
JR
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth22 February 1983
CountryFrance
human-nature imitation humans
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
thinking fame
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
sweet men decay
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
poverty charity pleading
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
greatness men nerves
A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
wisdom years hopeful
What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
lying philosophy differences
The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.
destiny blood grandparent
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.
aging timber used
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
feels knows
To know is not less than to feel.
book reading heart
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
dream real age
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.
views tests favour
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
men names effort
One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.