Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It frequently happens that a villainous action does not torment us the instant we commit it, but on recollection, and sometimes even after a number of years have elapsed, for the remembrance of crimes is not to be extinguished.

Bitkilerle salt öğretim üyesi ya da yazar olamk için uğraşılırsa, bu zevk yiter ve bitkiler artıki tutkularımız için birer araçtan başka bir şey olmazlar; herkes, bilmek değil de bildiğini göstermek kaygısına düşer ve ormanların ortası bile, kendini beğendirmek isteyenlerin beceri ve yetenek sahnesi durumunu alır.

He [Savoyard abbe M. Gaime] drew me a true picture of human life about which I had only false ideas; he showed me how, in an adverse destiny, the wise man can always attain happiness and tack close to the wind to reach it, how there is no true happiness without wisdom, and how there is wisdom in every station. He very much subdued my admiration for ]greatness by proving to me that those who dominated others were neither wiser nor happier than they. He told me something that has often returned to my memory, which is that if each man could read in the hearts of all the others, there would be more people who would want to descend than to rise. This reflection — the truth of which is striking and which is not at all exaggerated — has been of great use to me in the course of my life by making me keep peacefully in my place. He gave me the first true ideas about what is decent, which my bombastic genius had grasped only in its extremes. He made me feel that enthusiasm for sublime virtues was of little use in society; that by aiming too high one was subject to falls; that the continuity of small duties always well fulfilled did not require any less strength than heroic actions; that one could turn them to better account for honor and for happiness; and that it was worth infinitely more always to have men's esteem than sometimes to have their admiration.