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" "Verdad es que tales resarcimientos no pueden ser sentidos por todas las almas ni en todas las situaciones. Es preciso que el corazón esté en paz y que ninguna pasión venga a turbar su calma. Son precisas ciertas disposiciones por parte de quien los experimenta, son precisas en el concurso de los objetos circundantes. No se requiere ni un reposo absoluto ni demasiada agitación, sino un movimiento uniforme y moderado, carente de sacudidas e intervalos. Sin movimiento la vida no es más que un letargo. Si el movimiento es desigual o demasiado fuerte, despierta; al devolvernos a los objetos circundantes, destruye el encanto de la ensoñación y nos arranca de nuestros adentros para ponernos de inmediato bajo el yugo de la fortuna y de los hombres y entregarnos al sentimiento de nuestras desgracias.
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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A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need.