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Quotation from Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“It is certain my disorder was in a great measure hypochondriacal”
Confessions, Book VI, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903)
Rousseau's self-diagnosis, followed by a description of 'the vapors': unexplained tears, alarm at a falling leaf, weariness even of happiness.
Citation: "It is certain my disorder was in a great measure hypochondriacal" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, Book VI, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903). (id rousseaus-confessions-q7)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
