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Date: September 3, 1766
"Donner le change à nos passions par le goût des belles connaissances, c'est enchaîner les amours avec des liens de fleurs."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: 1774
"When they come to be a little better acquainted with themselves, and with their own species, they discover that plain right reason is, nine times in ten, the fettered and shackled attendant of the triumph of the heart and the passions; and, consequently, they address themselves nine times in ten...
preview | full record— Stanhope, Philip Dormer, fourth earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
