Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched! - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The origin of our passions, the root and spring of all the rest, the only one which is born with man, which never leaves him as long as he lives, is self-love; this passion is primitive, instinctive, it precedes all the rest, which are in a sense only modifications of it. In this sense, if you like, they are all natural. But most of these modifications are the result of external influences, without which they would never occur, and such modifications, far from being advantageous to us, are harmful. They change the original purpose and work against its end; then it is that man finds himself outside nature and at strife with himself.

Dieu est bon ; rien n'est plus manifeste : mais la bonté dans l'homme est l'amour de ses semblables, et la bonté de Dieu est l'amour de l'ordre ; car c'est par l'ordre qu'il maintient ce qui existe, et lie chaque partie avec le tout. Dieu est juste ; j'en suis convaincu, c'est une suite de sa bonté ; l'injustice des hommes est leur oeuvre et non pas la sienne ; le désordre moral, qui dépose contre la Providence aux yeux des philosophes, ne fait que la démontrer aux miens.

On the other hand, nothing would have been so miserable as savage man, dazzled by enlightenment, tormented by passions, and reasoning about a state different from his own.