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Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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There is a big difference between traveling to see countries and traveling to see towns.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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You will never be friars if you are not first acolytes.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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It is very difficult to subject to obedience one who does not seek to command.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Man suffers few evils, except those which he himself attracts through the abuse of his faculties.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Remorse dulls in prosperity and sharpens in bad times.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The money that one has is an instrument of freedom, the money that one seeks is an instrument of servitude.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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My greatest misfortune has always been not being able to resist flattery.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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I prefer to be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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There is no such complete subjection as that which retains the appearances of freedom, for thus is freedom itself captive.

Joseph Roux

Joseph Roux

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There are two kinds of great writers: those who think and those who make others think.

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Joseph Roux

Joseph Roux

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Our experience is made up more of lost illusions than acquired wisdom.