There are no colleges for girls; so much the better for them! Would God there were none for the boys, their education would be more sensible and more… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Verdad es que tales resarcimientos no pueden ser sentidos por todas las almas ni en todas las situaciones. Es preciso que el corazón esté en paz y que ninguna pasión venga a turbar su calma. Son precisas ciertas disposiciones por parte de quien los experimenta, son precisas en el concurso de los objetos circundantes. No se requiere ni un reposo absoluto ni demasiada agitación, sino un movimiento uniforme y moderado, carente de sacudidas e intervalos. Sin movimiento la vida no es más que un letargo. Si el movimiento es desigual o demasiado fuerte, despierta; al devolvernos a los objetos circundantes, destruye el encanto de la ensoñación y nos arranca de nuestros adentros para ponernos de inmediato bajo el yugo de la fortuna y de los hombres y entregarnos al sentimiento de nuestras desgracias.

Let us listen to the inner voice of feeling; what healthy mind can reject its evidence? I believe, therefore, that the world is governed by a wise and powerful will; I see it or rather I feel it, and it is a great thing to know this. I see God everywhere in his works; I feel him within myself. Again, I know that I am a free, active being. In vain do you argue this point with me; I feel it, and it is this feeling which speaks to me more forcibly than the reason which disputes it.

Astronomy was born of superstition, eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices