Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.


Emilius and Sophia : Or, A New System of Education (ed. 1763)


There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad...

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad...

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad...

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad...