So Confessions got slightly better. It's kind of like a movie where there's parts that it could just do without. But some of my favorites...
"higgledy-piggledy, the furniture is higgledy-piggledy"-now that's a phrase we should revive ;)

His view on small talk was also quite entertaining and I do recommend reading that portion of the piece, "In private conversation there is another difficulty, which I consider worse, the necessity of always talking./I can think of no greater torture than to be obliged to talk continually and without a moment for reflection." I got a kick out of this section.

Though I did not enjoy reading certain sections, I did appreciate his view that there is nothing like the love between a man and a woman. He defined a difference between a close friend/brother and the relationship between a man and a woman. In light of today's society, perhaps we could look into Rousseau's literary works once again.

Quotes taken from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions