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utterly foolish;
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
yielded himself up to the one aim of his devoted life, and went on, with that hushed concentration of his faculties which would have made his figure solitary in a multitude.
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
am struck by the spectacle; for to my mind the end of a good government is to ensure the welfare of a people, and not to establish order and regularity in the midst of its misery and its distress.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
But the intellectual and what is called spiritual man in him were slumbering as in an infant. He had been instructed only in that innocent and ineffectual way in which the Catholic priests teach the aborigines, by which the pupil is never educated to the degree of consciousness, but only to the degree of trust and reverence, and a child is not made
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was too young to know how to love
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • The Little Prince
'Are you quite sure that the Edmund in that pneumatic chair hasn't been just as heavily punished as the Edmund who's wounded and bleeding to death? The gods are just. Haven't they used his pleasant vices as an instrument to degrade him?'