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Date: w. 1757-1758, 1861
"Nous ne voyons ni l'âme d'autrui, parce qu'elle se cache, ni la notre, parce que nous n'avons point de miroir intellectuel [We do not see the soul of others, because it hides itself, nor our own, because we have no intellectual mirror]."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)