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Quotation from Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I did not fear punishment, but I dreaded shame: I dreaded it more than death, more than the crime, more than all the world”
Confessions, Book II, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903)
Rousseau's analysis of why he falsely accused Marion of stealing the ribbon he had taken.
Citation: "I did not fear punishment, but I dreaded shame: I dreaded it more than death, more than the crime, more than all the world" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, Book II, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903). (id rousseaus-confessions-q4)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
