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

Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dan l'adversite.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Confessions (Rousseau)

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Topic

Remorse Regrets

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Source

Confessions (Rousseau)

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

French

Time

1781 1780s 18th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

Switzerland Europe

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Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Les Confessions [The Confessions]. Aux Deux-Ponts: Chez Sanson Et Compagnie, 1782, bk. 2.

Current Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Confessions, translated by Angela Scholar. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 1, bk. 2.

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These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

Letter to John Adams, 1780

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Topic
Interesting times Benefits of adversity

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Abigail Adams
Source
Letter to John Adams, 1780 Letters of Abigail Adams
Medium
Letter
Language
English
Time
1780 1780s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Quincy Adams. 12 Jan. 1780.

Current Citation

Adams, Abigail. Quoted in John Adams, written by David McCullough. Simon and Schuster, 2001.

Another quote originally in French

The world began without the human race and it will end without it... Man has never-save only when he reproduces himself-done other than cheerfully dismantle millions upon millions of structures and reduce their elements to a state in which they can no longer be reintegrated.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Tristes Tropiques

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Human destructiveness

Author

Claude Levi-Strauss
Source
Tristes Tropiques
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
French
Time
1955 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques [Sad Tropics]. Librairie Plon, 1955, pt. 9, ch. 36.

Current Citation

Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Penguin Classics, 2012, pt. 9, ch. 36.