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Rousseau, Book 10 [JJ#10][jj10b10.txt]3910 +Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 9 [JJ#09][jj09b10.txt]3909 +Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 8 [JJ#08][jj08b10.txt]3908 +Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 7 [JJ#07][jj07b10.txt]3907 +Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 6 [JJ#06][jj06b10.txt]3906 +Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 5 [JJ#05][jj05b10.txt]3905 +Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 4 [JJ#04][jj04b10.txt]3904 +Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 3 [JJ#03][jj03b10.txt]3903 +Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 2 [JJ#02][jj02b10.txt]3902 +Apr 2003 The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book 1 [JJ#01][jj01b10.txt]3901 + + + + + + THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU + + +THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 1 +[JJ#01][jj01b10.txt]3901 + +A feeling heart the foundation of all my misfortunes +Being beat like a slave, I judged I had a right to all vices +Degree of sensuality had mingled with the smart and shame +First instance of violence and oppression is so deeply engraved +Hold fast to aught that I have, and yet covet nothing more +Insignificant trash that has obtained the name of education +Law that the accuser should be confined at the same time +Less degree of repugnance in divulging what is really criminal +Money that we possess is the instrument of liberty +Money we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery +Necessity, the parent of industry, suggested an invention +Neither the victim nor witness of any violent emotions +Passed my days in languishing in silence for those I most admire +Rogues know how to save themselves at the expense of the feeble +Seeking, by fresh offences, a return of the same chastisement +Supposed that certain, which I only knew to be probable +Taught me it was not so terrible to thieve as I had imagined +We learned to dissemble, to rebel, to lie + + + + +THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 2 +[JJ#02][jj02b10.txt]3902 + +A man, on being questioned, is immediately on his guard +A religion preached by such missionaries must lead to paradise! +Aversion to singularity +Avoid putting our interests in competition with our duty +Catholic must content himself with the decisions of others +Disgusted with the idle trifling of a convent +Dissembler, though, in fact, I was only courteous +Ever appearing to feel as little for others as herself +Flattery, or rather condescension, is not always a vice +Hopes, in which self-love was by no means a loser +I did not fear punishment, but I dreaded shame +I felt no dread but that of being detected +I only wished to avoid giving offence +Instead of being delighted with the journey only wished arrival +Left to nature the whole care of my own instruction +Making me sensible of every deficiency +Myself the principal object +Obtain their wishes, without permitting or promising anything +Piety was too sincere to give way to any affectation of it +Placing unbounded confidence in myself and others +Proportioned rather to her ideas than abilities +Protestants, in general, are better instructed +Read the hearts of others by endeavoring to conceal our own +Remorse sleeps in the calm sunshine of prosperity +Remorse wakes amid the storms of adversity +Sometimes encourage hopes they never mean to realize +The conscience of the guilty would revenge the innocent +Where merit consists in belief, and not in virtue +Whole universe would be interested in my concerns +Yielded him the victory, or rather declined the contest + + + + +THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 3 +[JJ#03][jj03b10.txt]3903 + +A subject not even fit to make a priest of +Endeavoring to hide my incapacity, I rarely fail to show it +Endeavoring to rise too high we are in danger of falling +Foresight with me has always embittered enjoyment +Hat only fit to be carried under his arm +Love of the marvellous is natural to the human heart +Mistake wit for sense +Priests ought never to have children--except by married women +Rather appeared to study with than to instruct me +Though not a fool, I have frequently passed for one + + + + +THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 4 +[JJ#04][jj04b10.txt]3904 + +Have ever preferred suffering to owing +I was long a child, and am so yet in many particulars + + + + +THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 5 +[JJ#05][jj05b10.txt]3905 + +Adopted the jargon of books, than the knowledge they contained +Dying for love without an object +Have the pleasure of seeing an ass ride on horseback +Idleness is as much the pest of society as of solitude +If you have nothing to do, you must absolutely speak continually +In a nation of blind men, those with one eye are kings +Injustice of mankind which embitters both life and death +Not so easy to quit her house as to enter it +Sin consisted only in the scandal +Trusting too implicitly to their own innocence +Voltaire was formed never to be (happy) +When everyone is busy, you may continue silent +Whose discourses began by a distribution of millions + + + + +THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 6 +[JJ#06][jj06b10.txt]3906 + +All animals are distrustful of man, and with reason +Ardor for learning became so far a madness +Conversations were more serviceable than his prescriptions +Finding in every disease symptoms similar to mine +First time in my life, of saying, "I merit my own esteem" +Looking on each day as the last of my life +Making their knowledge the measure of possibilities +Men, in general, make God like themselves +One of those affronts which women scarcely ever forgive +Prescriptions serve to flatter the hopes of the patient +Read description of any malady without thinking it mine +Read without studying +Return of spring seemed to me like rising from the grave +Slighting her favors, if within your reach, a unpardonable crime +True happiness is indescribable, it is only to be felt + + + + +THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 7 +[JJ#07][jj07b10.txt]3907 + +I am charged with the care of myself only +I strove to flatter my idleness +Men of learning more tenaciously retain their predjudices + + + + +THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 8 +[JJ#08][jj08b10.txt]3908 + +All your evils proceed from yourselves +Considering this want of decency as an act of courage +Die without the aid of physicians +I had a numerous acquaintance, yet no more than two friends +Knew how to complain, but not how to act +Moment I acquired literary fame, I had no longer a friend +There is no clapping of hands before the king + + + + +THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 9 +[JJ#09][jj09b10.txt]3909 + +An author must be independent of success +Cemented by reciprocal esteem +Difficult to think nobly when we think for a livelihood +Dine at the hour of supper; sup when I should have been asleep +Force me to be happy in the manner they should point out +Hastening on to death without having lived +How many wrongs are effaced by the embraces of a friend +I loved her too well to wish to possess her +I never heard her speak ill of persons who were absent +Idea of my not being everything to her +In the course of their lives frequently unlike themselves +Is it possible to dissimulate with persons whom we love? +Letters illustrious in proportion as it was less a trade +Loaded with words and redundancies +Make men like himself, instead of taking them as they were +Manoeuvres of an author to the care of publishing a good book +No longer permitted to let old people remain out of Paris +No sooner had lost sight of men than I ceased to despise them +Not knowing how to spend their time, daily breaking in upon me +Painful to an honest man to resist desires already formed +Rather bashful than modest +This continued desire to control me in all my wishes +To make him my apologies for the offence he had given me +Tyranny of persons who called themselves my friends +Virtuous minds, which vice never attacks openly +When once we make a secret of anything to the person we love +Without the least scruple, freely disposing of my time +Writing for bread would soon have extinguished my genius + + + + +THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 10 +[JJ#10][jj10b10.txt]3910 + +Indolence, negligence and delay in little duties to be fulfilled +Jean Bapiste Rousseau +My greatest faults have been omissions +Satisfaction of weeping together +The malediction of knaves is the glory of an honest man +There is nothing in this world but time and misfortune +What facility everything which favors the malignity of man +Whence comes it that even a child can intimidate a man + + + + +THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 11 +[JJ#11][jj11b10.txt]3911 + +Caution is needless after the evil has happened +Her excessive admiration or dislike of everything +More folly than candor in the declaration without necessity +Multiplying persons and adventures +That which neither women nor authors ever pardon + + + + +THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 12 +[JJ#12][jj12b10.txt]3912 + +Bilboquet +I never much regretted sleep +In company I suffer cruelly by inaction +Indolence of company is burdensome because it is forced +More stunned than flattered by the trumpet of fame +Nothing absurd appears to them incredible +Obliged to pay attention to every foolish thing uttered +Only prayer consisted in the single interjection "Oh!" +Reproach me with so many contradictions +Substituting cunning to knowledge +Wish thus to be revenged of me for their humiliation + + + + +ENTIRE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, BOOK 13 +[JJ#13][jj13b10.txt]3913 + +A feeling heart the foundation of all my misfortunes +A religion peached 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 deeply engraved +First time in my life, of saying, "I merit my own esteem" +Flattery, or rather condescension, is not always a vice +Force me to be happy in the manner they should point out +Foresight with me has always embittered enjoyment +Hastening on to death without having lived +Hat, only fit to be carried under his arm +Have the pleasure of seeing an ass ride on horseback +Have ever preferred suffering to owing +Her excessive admiration or dislike of everything +Hold fast to aught that I have, and yet covet nothing more +Hopes, in which self-love was by no means a loser +How many wrongs are effaced by the embraces of a friend! +I never much regretted sleep +I strove to flatter my idleness +I never heard her speak ill of persons who were absent +I loved her too well to wish to possess her +I felt no dread but that of being detected +I was long a child, and am so yet in many particulars +I am charged with the care of myself only +I only wished to avoid giving offence +I did not fear punishment, but I dreaded shame +I had a numerous acquaintance, yet no more than two friends +Idea of my not being everything to her +Idleness is as much the pest of society as of solitude +If you have nothing to do, you must absolutely speak continually +In the course of their lives frequently unlike themselves +In company I suffer cruelly by inaction +In a nation of blind men, those with one eye are kings +Indolence, negligence and delay in little duties to be fulfilled +Indolence of company is burdensome because it is forced +Injustice of mankind which embitters both life and death +Insignificant trash that has obtained the name of education +Instead of being delighted with the journey only wished arrival +Is it possible to dissimulate with persons whom we love? +Jean Bapiste Rousseau +Knew how to complain, but not how to act +Law that the accuser should be confined at the same time +Left to nature the whole care of my own instruction +Less degree of repugnance in divulging what is really criminal +Letters illustrious in proportion as it was less a trade +Loaded with words and redundancies +Looking on each day as the last of my life +Love of the marvellous is natural to the human heart +Make men like himself, instead of taking them as they were +Making their knowledge the measure of possibilities +Making me sensible of every deficiency +Manoeuvres of an author to the care of publishing a good book +Men, in general, make God like themselves +Men of learning more tenaciously retain their predjudices +Mistake wit for sense +Moment I acquired literary fame, I had no longer a friend +Money that we possess is the instrument of liberty +Money we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery +More stunned than flattered by the trumpet of fame +More folly than candor in the declaration without necessity +Multiplying persons and adventures +My greatest faults have been omissions +Myself the principal object +Necessity, the parent of industry, suggested an invention +Neither the victim nor witness of any violent emotions +No sooner had lost sight of men than I ceased to despise them +No longer permitted to let old people remain out of Paris +Not so easy to quit her house as to enter it +Not knowing how to spend their time, daily breaking in upon me +Nothing absurd appears to them incredible +Obliged to pay attention to every foolish thing uttered +Obtain their wishes, without permitting or promising anything +One of those affronts which women scarcely ever forgive +Only prayer consisted in the single interjection "Oh!" +Painful to an honest man to resist desires already formed +Passed my days in languishing in silence for those I most admire +Piety was too sincere to give way to any affectation of it +Placing unbounded confidence in myself and others +Prescriptions serve to flatter the hopes of the patient +Priests ought never to have children--except by married women +Proportioned rather to her ideas than abilities +Protestants, in general, are better instructed +Rather bashful than modest +Rather appeared to study with than to instruct me +Read the hearts of others by endeavoring to conceal our own +Read description of any malady without thinking it mine +Read without studying +Remorse wakes amid the storms of adversity +Remorse sleeps in the calm sunshine of prosperity +Reproach me with so many contradictions +Return of spring seemed to me like rising from the grave +Rogues know how to save themselves at the expense of the feeble +Satisfaction of weeping together +Seeking, by fresh offences, a return of the same chastisement +Sin consisted only in the scandal +Slighting her favors, if within your reach, a unpardonable crime +Sometimes encourage hopes they never mean to realize +Substituting cunning to knowledge +Supposed that certain, which I only knew to be probable +Taught me it was not so terrible to thieve as I had imagined +That which neither women nor authors ever pardon +The malediction of knaves is the glory of an honest man +The conscience of the guilty would revenge the innocent +There is nothing in this world but time and misfortune +There is no clapping of hands before the king +This continued desire to control me in all my wishes +Though not a fool, I have frequently passed for one +To make him my apologies for the offence he had given me +True happiness is indescribable, it is only to be felt +Trusting too implicitly to their own innocence +Tyranny of persons who called themselves my friends +Virtuous minds, which vice never attacks openly +Voltaire was formed never to be(happy) +We learned to dissemble, to rebel, to lie +What facility everything which favors the malignity of man +When once we make a secret of anything to the person we love +When everyone is busy, you may continue silent +Whence comes it that even a child can intimidate a man +Where merit consists in belief, and not in virtue +Whole universe would be interested in my concerns +Whose discourses began by a distribution of millions +Wish thus to be revenged of me for their humiliation +Without the least scruple, freely disposing of my time +Writing for bread would soon have extinguished my genius +Yielded him the victory, or rather declined the contest + + + + + +End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of Widger's Quotations, +from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, by David Widger + diff --git a/3749.zip b/3749.zip Binary files differnew file mode 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