To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what y…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
224 citations
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
Love
35

More Author Quotes

[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact l … ▶
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. ✨ Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). The Social Contract, p.95, Jean Jacques Rousseau
God made me and broke the mold.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. ✨ Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1782.
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes