Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes
The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.
At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.