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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Age: 66 †
Born: 1712
Born: June 28
Died: 1778
Died: July 2
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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