Trên hết, ta có thể nói rằng, trong tình trạng văn minh, con người còn thủ đắc thêm tự do luân lý mà chỉ có nó mới biến con người thành chủ nhân đích… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Dizer que um homem se dá gratuitamente é uma afirmação absurda e inconcebível; tal ato é ilegítimo e nulo, tão-somente porque aquele que o pratica não está de posse do seu bom-senso. Dizer a mesma coisa de todo um povo é supor uma nação de loucos e a loucura não cria direito.

Stellen wir uns als unbestreitbaren Grundsatz auf, dass die ersten natürlichen Triebe stets gut sind; es gibt im menschlichen Herzen keine angeborene Verderbtheit; es befindet sich in ihm kein einziges Laster, von dem man nicht sagen kann, wie und wodurch es in es eingedrungen ist.

Let's not be dazzled by the sententious glitter with which error and lying often cover themselves. Society is not created by the crowd, and bodies come together in vain when hearts reject each other. The truly sociable man is more difficult in his relationships than others; those which consist only in false appearances cannot suit him. He prefers to live far from wicked men without thinking about them, than to see them and hate them. He prefers to flee his enemy rather than seek him out to harm him. A person who knows no other society than that of the heart will not seek his society in your circles. That is How J.J. must have thought and behaved before the conspiracy of which he is the object.