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Quotation from Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“These gentlemen understood nothing of my illness, therefore concluded I could not be ill”
Confessions, Book VI, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903)
Rousseau's complaint against the Montpellier physicians who treated him with waters and whey as an imaginary invalid.
Citation: "These gentlemen understood nothing of my illness, therefore concluded I could not be ill" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, Book VI, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903). (id rousseaus-confessions-q9)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
