Author: Rousseau

Cited by

• Mary Wollstonecraft (2)
  • IN: Mary: The Wrongs of Woman (1976) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: L'exercise des plus sublimes vertus e;eve et nourrit le genie.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Switzerland/Geneva
  • IN: Mary, A Fiction (1788) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: L'exercice des plus sublimes vertus eleve et nourrit le genie
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Geneva
• Leonardo Sciascia (1)
  • IN: Equal Danger (1971) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: O Montaigne! You who pride yourself on your candor and truthfulness, be sincere and truthful, if a philosopher can be so, and tell me whether there exists on earth a country where it is a crime to keep one's given word and to be clement and generous, where the good man is despised and the wicked man honored.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Geneva, Switzerland
• Ronald Hayman (1)
  • IN: Marquis de Sade: The Genius of Passion (1978) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The less natural and urgent needs are, the stronger the passions and what is worse, the greater the power to satisfy them; so that after long prosperity, after having swallowed up many treasures and ruined many men, my hero will end up by killing everything until he is sole master of the universe. Such is in brief the moral picture, if not of human life, at least of the secret aspirations in the heart of every civilized man.
    FROM: Discours sur l'inegalite, (1755), Book, Switzerland
• Mike Gayle (1)
  • IN: Seeing Other People (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Switzerland
• Mary Hays (1)
  • IN: Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The preceptions of persons in retirement are very different from those of people in the great world: their passions, being differently modified, are differently expressed; their imaginations, constantly impressed by the same objects, are more violently affected. The same small number of images continually return, mix with every idea, and create those strange and false notions, so remarkable in people who spend their lives in solitude.
    FROM: Julie; or, The New Heloise, (1761), Novel, Switzerland
• Nina Bawden (1)
  • IN: Family Money (1991) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France