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Henri Rousseau Inspirational Quotes (19)

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The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying this is mine and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
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The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.
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If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.
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The interest and the feelings are not due to colors the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a print.
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The universe was born restless and has never since been still.
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The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel.
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The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.
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God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.
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Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
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I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
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The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.
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Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
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Nature's instructions are always slow those of men are generally premature.
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I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.
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Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
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It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.
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It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
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If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
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