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" "Alas, it is when one is beginning to leave behind one's mortal body that one is the most hindered by it!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a major French-speaking Genevan philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.
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Let us not forget what befits our present state in the pursuit of vain fancies. Mankind has its place in the sequence of things; childhood has its place in the sequence of human life; the man must be treated as a man and the child as a child. Give each his place, and keep him there. Control human passions according to man's nature; that is all we can do for his welfare. The rest depends on external forces, which are beyond our control.
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Tomé gusto por esta recreación de los ojos que en el infortunio descansa, distrae, divierte al espíritu y suspende el sentido de las cuitas. La naturaleza de los objetos ayuda mucho a esta diversión y la hace más seductora. Los suaves olores, los colores vivos, las más elegantes formas parecen disputarse a porfía el derecho a fijar nuestras atención. Para entregarse a tan dulces sensaciones, tan sólo hace falta amar el placer, y si este efecto no se produce en todos aquellos que son impresionados por ellas, es por falta de sensibilidad natural en unos, y en la mayoría porque, demasiado ocupado su espíritu en otras ideas, no se entrega sino a hurtadillas a los objetos que impresionan sus sentidos.