Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.
Henri Rousseau
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Henri Rousseau
Age: 66 †
Born: 1844
Born: May 21
Died: 1910
Died: September 4
Artist
Painter
Printmaker
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau
Henri-Julien-Félix Rousseau
le Douanier Rousseau
Henri Julien Felix Rousseau
Le Douanier
Rousseau Douanier
Douanier
Customs Officer
Douanier Rousseau
Le Douanier Rousseau
Henri Julien Rousseau
Henry Julien Felix Rousseau
Rousseau
Henri Julian Félix Rousseau
Henri rousseau
Henri-Julien-Felix Rousseau
Henri
Least
Pleasure
Suffering
Happiness
Enjoys
Enjoy
Suffers
Pain
Happiest
Miserable
Joy
More quotes by Henri Rousseau
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Henri Rousseau
It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
Henri Rousseau
If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.
Henri Rousseau
Nature's instructions are always slow those of men are generally premature.
Henri Rousseau
Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
Henri Rousseau
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.
Henri Rousseau
The universe was born restless and has never since been still.
Henri Rousseau
God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.
Henri Rousseau
I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.
Henri Rousseau
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.
Henri Rousseau
It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
Henri Rousseau
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.
Henri Rousseau
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
Henri Rousseau
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
Henri Rousseau
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.
Henri Rousseau
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.
Henri Rousseau
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
Henri Rousseau
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.
Henri Rousseau
