God made me and broke the mold. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
God made me and broke the mold. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke
It’s amazing how much funny stuff there is…. [A] river of rich comedic milk is flowing across the land, and as fast as I skim off the cream more cream appears…. I may be doomed to wade around forever in other people’s pith. Not that it’s such a bad life. – Robert Byrne, The Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,