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Date: 1762
"Plus tard, la substance est durcie, & les nouvelles empreintes ne marquent plus. Jeune homme, recevez dans votre âme, encore flexible, le cachet de la vérité."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: 1762
"Du reste, renversant, détruisant, foulant aux pieds tout ce que les hommes respectent, ils ôtent aux affligés la dernière consolation de leur misère, aux puissants & aux riches le seul frein de leurs passions; ils arrachent du fond des coeurs le remords du crime, l’espoir de la vertu, & se vante...
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"We should feel sorrow, says he, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirrour, which reflects every object without being sullied by any."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Oh thou possessor of heavenly wisdom, would be this separation, this immeasurable distance from my friends, were I not able thus to delineate my heart upon paper, and to send thee daily a map of my mind."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"His boasted reason seems only to light him astray, and brutal instinct more regularly points out the path to happiness."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Where, I again repeat it, is human reason! not only some men, but whole nations, seem divested of its illumination."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"My imagination painted her in all the bloom of youth and beauty. I fancied her attended by the loves and graces, and I set out with the most pleasing expectations of seeing the conquest I had made."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"Reason cannot resolve. It lends a ray to shew the horrors of my prison, but not a light to guide me to escape them."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"I was deaf, insensible, rock, adamant, the bailiffs could make no impression on my hard heart, for I effectually kept my liberty by never stirring out of the room."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"My heart still hovers round those scenes of former happiness with pleasure; and I find satisfaction in enjoying them at this distance, though but in imagination."
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
