[Luxury] corrupts both rich and poor, the rich by having it and the poor by wanting it. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Estas cadenas no me parecieron, sin embargo, muy pesadas, en tanto en cuanto, ignorado por el público, viví en la oscuridad.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment in eighteenth century Europe.

Emerging society gave way to the most horrible state of war; since the human race, vilified and desolated, was no longer able to retrace its steps or give up the unfortunate acquisitions it had made, and since it labored only toward its shame by abusing the faculties that honor it, it brought itself to the brink of its ruin. Horrified by the newness of the ill, both the poor man and the rich man hope to flee from wealth, hating what they once had prayed for.