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Trust to me, judicious mother: do not make of your daughter an honest man, as if to give the lie to Nature; make her an honest woman, and be assured that she will be of more worth both to herself and to us. - [Daughters] Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. - [Virtue] We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux. - [Change] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. - [Fortune] We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced. - [Pity] Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. - [Writing] When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason. - [Faith] Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy. - [Loquacity] Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,-- Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away. - Days of Absence [Absence] Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the author of things, degenerates in the hands of man. - Emile (bk. 1), (Foxley and Roosevelt translation) [Books (First Lines)] Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.] - Emile (bk. II) [Childhood] A feeble body weakens the mind. [Fr., Un corps debile affoiblit l'ame.] - Emile (I) [Mind] Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it. [Fr., L'accent est l'ame du discours, il lui donne le sentiment et la verite.] - Emile (I) [Language] A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.] - Emile (I, 5) [Women] Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.] - Emile (I, 5) [Women] There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.] - Emile (II) [Progress] I began this disorderly and almost endless collection of scattered thoughts and observations in order to gratify a good mother who knows how to think. - Emile (preface), (Foxley and Roosevelt translation) [Books (First Lines)] I have begun on a work which is without precedent, whose accomplishment will have no imitator. I propose to set before my fellow-mortals a man in all the truth of nature; and this man shall be myself. - The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau (bk. I), (W. Conyngham Mallory translation) [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.] - The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau (I, 11) [Remorse] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr., C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des autres que d'affecter de cacher le sien.] - The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau (II) [Heart] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.] - The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau (V) [Success] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. [Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit et senti, la veritable jouissance ne se decrit point.] - The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau (VIII) [Enjoyment] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK Displaying page 4 of 4 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 [4]
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