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Title: Quotes and Images From The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau

Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Edited and Arranged by David Widger

Release Date: August 28, 2004 [EBook #7555]
[Last updated on February 19, 2007]

Language: English

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Produced by David Widger

QUOTES AND IMAGES: CONFESSIONS OF ROUSSEAU

CONFESSIONS OF ROUSSEAU

By Jean Jacques Rousseau

A feeling heart the foundation of all
my misfortunes

A religion preached by such
missionaries must lead to paradise!

A subject not even fit to make a priest
of

A man, on being questioned, is
immediately on his guard

Adopted the jargon of books, than the
knowledge they contained

All animals are distrustful of man, and
with reason

All your evils proceed from yourselves!

An author must be independent of
success

Ardor for learning became so far a
madness

Aversion to singularity

Avoid putting our interests in
competition with our duty

Being beat like a slave, I judged I had
a right to all vices

Bilboquet

Catholic must content himself with the
decisions of others

Caution is needless after the evil has
happened

Cemented by reciprocal esteem

Considering this want of decency as an
act of courage

Conversations were more serviceable
than his prescriptions

Degree of sensuality had mingled with
the smart and shame

Die without the aid of physicians

Difficult to think nobly when we think
for a livelihood

Dine at the hour of supper; sup when I
should have been asleep

Disgusted with the idle trifling of a
convent

Dissembler, though, in fact, I was only
courteous

Dying for love without an object

Endeavoring to hide my incapacity, I
rarely fail to show it

Endeavoring to rise too high we are in
danger of falling

Ever appearing to feel as little for
others as herself

Finding in every disease symptoms
similar to mine

First instance of violence and
oppression is so de