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Jean-Jacques Annaud

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I had flops, I had success.
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I didn't foresee my career. Things happen.
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JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be gi...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, the...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Money is the seed of money.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set befo...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in i...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
For a minute or perhaps two-and this is a long time-the theater makes man better and happier on this...
JEAN JACQUES GAUTIER
There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ''Is it good in...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others ...
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
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU