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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765)
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765)
Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765)
I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765)
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765)
He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765)
If I am not better, at least I am different.
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1782)
Whenever the last trumpet shall sound, I will present myself before the sovereign judge with this book in my hand, and loudly proclaim, thus have I acted; these were my thoughts; such was I.
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765)
I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765)