With inconceivable rapidity, my feelings became elevated to the tone of my ideas. All my petty passions were… — Jean Jacques Rousseau

With inconceivable rapidity, my feelings became elevated to the tone of my ideas. All my petty passions were stifled by the enthusiasm of truth, liberty and virtue; and the most astonishing thing is, that this fervour continued in my heart for more than four or five years, in a higher degree, perhaps, than has ever been the case with the heart of any other man.

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