How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers. -
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I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was. -
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And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.
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- Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
- 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.
- We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.