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Date: 1762
"Je méditois donc sur le triste sort des mortels flottant sur cette mer des opinions humaines, sans gouvernail, sans boussole, & livrés à leurs passions orageuses, sans autre guide qu’un pilote inexpérimenté qui méconnaît sa route, & qui ne sait ni d’où il vient ni où il va."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: 1764
"Nobody knows what really is the being called 'spirit', to which even you give the material name of 'spirit', which means wind."
preview | full record— Arouet, François-Marie [known as Voltaire] (1694-1778)