Herhangi bir yarardan sıyrılmış gerçek, bir hak oluşturmaz ve bu nedenle, onu saklayan yalan söylemiş olmaz. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Todo hombre puede grabar tablas de piedra, o comprar un oráculo, o fingir un comercio secreto con alguna divinidad, o amaestrar un pájaro para hablarle al oído, o encontrar medios groseros para imponer aquéllas a un pueblo. El que no sepa más que esto, podrá hasta reunir un ejército de insensatos; pero nunca fundará un imperio, y su extravagante obra perecerá enseguida con él. Vanos prestigios forman un vínculo pasajero; sólo la sapiencia puede hacerlo duradero.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well.