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If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.


Jean-Jacques Annaud

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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
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