Quotes with jean-jacques

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  • Jean Paul Getty Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Jacques Maritain Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
    Jacques Maritain
    French Catholic philosopher (1882 - 1973)
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  • Jean Paul Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Jean Rostand Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine He knows the universe and does not know himself.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Hell is other people.
    Original: L'enfer, c'est les autres.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Jean Kerr Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
    Jean Kerr
    American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Jean Paul Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Jean Paul Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Jean Cocteau I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Jean Paul Getty I buy when other people are selling.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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