To live is not to breathe but to act. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The second essential rule of public economy is no less important than the first. If you would have the general will accomplished, bring all the particular wills into conformity with it; in other words, as virtue is nothing more than this conformity of the particular wills with the general will, establish the reign of virtue.

THE STRONGEST IS NEVER STRONG enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. Hence the right of the strongest, which, though to all seeming meant ironically, is really laid down as a fundamental principle.

Cuando un padre engendra y mantiene a sus hijos, no hace más que la tercera parte de su misión. Debe a su especie hombres; debe a la sociedad hombres sociables, y debe ciudadanos al Estado.