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America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.


Jean-Jacques Annaud

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JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not ex...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; fr...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the sec...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely know...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Cities are the abyss of the human species
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naive eno...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Truth is no road to fortune
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who h...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU As soon as public service ceases to be the chief business of the citizens, and they would rather ser...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Our greatest evil flows from ourselves
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows
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