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May Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
- Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor…
- [When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future…
- I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.
- The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each…
- Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.
- Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
- To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
- Even knaves may be made good for something.
- He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything…
- Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
- I may be no better, but at least I am different.
- Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than…
- The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have…
- Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert…
- As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for…
- In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may…
- Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change…
- Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every…
- However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
More May Quotes
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong