Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Love Quotes

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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What is it that renders friendship between women so lukewarm and of so short duration? It is the interests of love and the jealousy of conquest.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

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All those observers who have spent their lives in the study of the human heart, know less about the signs of love than the most brainless, yet sensitive woman.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The origin of our passions, the root and spring of all the rest, the only one which is born with man, which never leaves him as long as he lives, is self-love; this passion is primitive, instinctive, it precedes all the rest, which are in a sense only modifications of it. In this sense, if you like, they are all natural. But most of these modifications are the result of external influences, without which they would never occur, and such modifications, far from being advantageous to us, are harmful. They change the original purpose and work against its end; then it is that man finds himself outside nature and at strife with himself.

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A woman who pretends to laugh at love is like the child who sings at night when he is afraid.

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Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If happiness could be prolonged from love into marriage, we should have paradise on earth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Where is the man who owes nothing to the land in which he lives? Whatever that land may be, he owes to it the most precious thing possessed by man, the morality of his actions and the love of virtue.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,—
Days of absence, I am weary:
She I love is far away.

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Self-love makes more libertines than love.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is the chain of accessory ideas that makes me love botany

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

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