Jean-Jacques Rousseau Vanity Quotations

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

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.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and there would be neither vanity nor luxury in such a state.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.