Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity. ✨…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity. ✨ Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1782.
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I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallow … ▶
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. ✨ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1763). Emilius; Or, an Essay on Education, p.22
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man. ✨ Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). Emile, p.340, eKitap Projesi

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity. ✨ Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1782.

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