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Possess Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
- In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state…
- Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.
More Possess Quotes
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed… — Jane Austen
- Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen? — Teresa of Avila
- If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater… — Joseph Addison
- Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. — Henry Ward Beecher
- To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the… — Alfred Adler
- Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf… — Josh Billings
- The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other nations also… — John O. Brennan
- Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint… — Robert Burns
- A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well. — Louisa May Alcott
- There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. — John Cage
- If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. — Dale Carnegie