El hombre nace libre y en todas partes está encadenado - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty. No, it is not possible that minds degraded by a multitude of futile concerns would ever raise themselves to anything great. Even when they had the strength for that, the courage would be missing.

Remember that the walls of towns are built of the ruins of the houses of the countryside. For every palace I see raised in the capital, my mind's eye sees a whole country made desolate.

[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.