He aquí el estudio a que me he aplicado con preferencia, para que, aún suponiendo mi mėtodo enteramente falso, se obtenga siempre beneficio de mis ob… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.

"I will simply ask: What is philosophy? What do the
writings of the best known philosophers contain? What are the
lessons of these friends of wisdom? To listen to them, would
one not take them for a troupe of charlatans crying out in a
public square, each from his own corner: "Come to me. I'm the
only one who is not wrong"?"

L'argent qu'on possède est l'instrument de la liberté ; celui qu'on pourchasse est celui de la servitude.