Logo
Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Other quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Category:
Nature
Author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Read Quote

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. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Category:
Death
Author
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
famous
category

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but thats not how Ive chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become. – Julia Roberts

Category:
famous

The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen together in 2004 and weve stayed in touch. – Adam Garcia

Category:
famous

I can never really enjoy being famous. – Utada Hikaru

Category:
famous

Forget about being world famous, its hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. – Doug Coupland

Category:
famous

Random Quotes

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author? – Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Intellectual Life, 1873

Category:
Quotations

Were not going to baby sit a civil war. – Barack Obama

Category:
War

We live in a rainbow of chaos. – Paul Cezanne

Category:
Chaos

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it – London, the people of the south. – Martin C. Smith

Category:
Attitude