Status Updates From La Nouvelle Heloïse

C'était sympa mais ça devient long là, et il ne se passe plus rien...

“I maintain that only a geometrist and a dunce can speak without figures [i.e. ‘mataphors and figurative expressions’]” (196)

“I do not fear that the senses and vulgar pleasure will corrupt you. They are hardly dangerous traps for a sensible heart, for that it takes more delicate ones; I fear that terrible influence that the universal and general example of vice must exert; I fear the clever sophisms in which it cloaks itself…” (184)

“[W]hat seems to me worst about your present condition is that no one but yourself can rescue you from it.” (165)

“[T]here is sometimes more skill than courage in taking advantage for the present moment of an uncertain future, and taking advance credit for a perpetual abstinence that can be renounced at will.” (116)