Le plus lent à promettre est toujours le plus fidèle à tenir. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

But unity divides. Unity excludes. Unity polarizes. The corollary of the nation’s unity is the elimination of any individuals or groups that disrupt that unity. People who do not concur with the nation’s interests and goals, who persist in voicing their own private interests, who threaten the nation’s unanimity are considered enemies to be banished or punished. Thus, the Rousseauian yearning for cohesion, solidarity, and oneness imposes the psychology of the purge.

Liberado de todas las pasiones terrenas que engendra el tumulto de la vida social, mi alma se elevaría frecuentemente por encima de esta atmósfera, y comerciaría por anticipado con las inteligencias celestes cuyo número espera ir a aumentar dentro de poco.