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" "[When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of the characters [and soon found myself] in made-up circumstances which were most agreeable to my inclinations.
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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Pero si hay un estado en el que el alma encuentra un acomodo lo bastante sólido como para descansar en él por entero y congregar todo su ser, sin tener necesidad de recordar el pasado ni exceder del porvenir; donde el tiempo no exista para ella, donde el presente dure siempre sin señalar, no obstante, su duración y si huella alguna de secuencia, sin ninguno otro sentimiento de privación o de goce, de placer o de dolor, de deseo o de temor que el de nuestra existencia, y que este sentimiento único pueda colmarla por entero; en tanto dura tal estado, quien se encuentre en él puede llamarse dichoso, no de una dicha imperfecta, pobre y relativa, tal cual se halla en los placeres de la vida, sino de una dicha suficiente, perfecta y plena que no deja en el alma ningún vacío que ésta sienta la necesidad de llenar. Tal es el estado en que me encontré con frecuencia en la isla de Saint-Pierre en mis ensoñaciones solitarias, ora tumbado en mi barca que dejaba derivar a merced del agua, ora sentado en las riberas del lago agitado, ora en otra parte, a orillas de un hermoso río o de un arroyo murmurando por entre el guijarral.
The extreme inequality of our ways of life, the excess of idleness among some and the excess of toil among others, the ease of stimulating and gratifying our appetites and our senses, the over-elaborate foods of the rich, which inflame and overwhelm them with indigestion, the bad food of the poor, which they often go withotu altogether, so hat they over-eat greedily when they have the opportunity; those late nights, excesses of all kinds, immoderate transports of every passion, fatigue, exhaustion of mind, the innumerable sorrows and anxieties that people in all classes suffer, and by which the human soul is constantly tormented: these are the fatal proofs that most of our ills are of our own making, and that we might have avoided nearly all of them if only we had adhered to the simple, unchanging and solitary way of life that nature ordained for us.
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