No sabía emplear con ellos más que tres medios inútiles siempre y frecuentemente perniciosos con los niños: el sentimiento, los razonamientos y el en… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ويلوح أن الواقع يقضي بأنني إذا كنتُ مُلزمًا بألَّا أصنع أي سوء لمثيلي؛ فذلك لأنه كائنٌ ذو إحساسٍ أكثر من أن يكون ذا عقل، وبما أن صفة الإحساس مشترَكةٌ بين الحيوان والإنسان، فإن من الواجب أن تمنح أحدهما، على الأقل، حقَّ عدم معاملته سوءًا من قِبَل الآخَر على غير جدوى.

There is, I feel, an age at which the individual man would want to stop: you wi l seek the age at which you would desire your Species had stopped. Discontented with your present state for reasons that foretell even greater discontents for your unhappy Posterity, perhaps you would want to be able to go backward in time. This sentiment must be the Eulogy of your first ancestors, the criticism of your contemporaries, and the dread of those who will have the unhappiness to live after you.

Every particular society, when it is narrow and unified, is estranged from the all-encompassing society. Every patriot is harsh to foreigners. They arc only men. They arc nothing in his eyes - This is a drawback, inevitable but not compelling. The essential thing is to be good to the people with whom one lives. Abroad, the Spartan was ambitious, avaricious. iniquitous. But disinterestedness, equity, and concord reigned within his walls. Distrust those cosmopolitans who go to great length in their books to discover duties they do not deign to fulfill around them. A philosopher loves the Tartars so as to be spared having to love his neighbors.