if you study in order to instruct, and herbalize only to become author or professor, all its attractive charms vanish, and plants, being no longer co… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For him who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

Visions are a feeble resource, you will say, against great adversity! Oh Sir, these visions may possibly have more reality than all those apparent goods about which men make so much ado, for they never bring a true feeling of happiness to the soul, and those who possess them are equally forced to project themselves into the future for want of finding enjoyments that satisfy them, in the present.

وليس عليه إلا أن يضع يديه على أذنيه، وأن يساجل نفسه قليلًا ليمنع الطبيعة التي تحركت فيه من أن تتمثل في الشخص الذي يُذْبَحُ، ولا تجد عند الإنسان الوحشي هذا النبوغ العجيب، وتجد الإنسان الوحشي يُسلِم نفسه في كل وقت، وبلا روية، إلى أول شعورٍ إنساني، وترى الرعاع يتجمعون في الفتن والمشاجرات والشوارع، وترى الإنسان الفطين يبتعد عنها، والأوباش ونساء الأسواق هم الذين يفصلون بين المتنازعين ويحولون دون تذابح ذوي الصلاح.