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Posted on Oct 08, 2008 under Eighteenth-century Enlightenment, Emile: or, J, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Julie ou la nouvelle Héloïse, On Education | No CommentJean Jacques Rousseau Love Quote and Sayings
1. 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.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Jean Jacques Rousseau (Geneva, 28 June 1712 – Ermenonville, 2 July 1778) was a major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, whose political philosophy influenced the French Revolution and the development of modern political and educational thought.
His novel, Emile: or, On Education, which he considered his most important work, is a seminal treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel, Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, was of great importance to the development of pre-Romanticism and romanticism in fiction.
Rousseau’s autobiographical writings: his Confessions, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker (along with the works of Lessing and Goethe in Germany, and Richardson and Sterne in England), were among the pre-eminent examples of the late eighteenth-century movement known as the “Age of Sensibility”, featuring an increasing focus on subjectivity and introspection that has characterized the modern age.
Rousseau also wrote a play and two operas, and made important contributions to music as a theorist. During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophies among members of the Jacobin Club. He was interred as a national hero in the Panthéon in Paris, in 1794, sixteen years after his death.
Sayings by Jean Jacques Rousseau
1. A feeble body weakens the mind.
2. Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
3. Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
4. It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
5. Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
6. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
7. People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
8. Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
9. The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
10. Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
