"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?" ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau Topic(s): Famous More From Jean-Jacques Rousseau "I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself." "Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger." "O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it." More In Famous "Whenever you’re the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that."― Jeff Bridges "I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words."― Ruth St. Denis "I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in ‘Vogue,’ but it’s far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells."― Bruce Oldfield