In addition to all that, a man may have any opinions he likes without that being any of the sovereign’s business. Having no standing in the other wor… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fakat aramızda şu ayrım var ki bu adamlar bir şey bilmedikleri halde her şeyi bildiklerini sanıyorlar; bense bir şey bilmemekle beraber hiç olmazsa bilmediğimden şüphe etmiyorum.

As long as we desire, we can do without happiness: we expect to achieve it. If happiness fails to come, hope persists, and the charm of illusion lasts as long as the passion that causes it. So this condition is sufficient in itself, and the anxiety it inflicts is a sort of enjoyment that compensates for reality… Woe to him who has nothing left to desire… We enjoy less what we obtain than what we hope for, and we are happy only before being happy.

I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We see about us practically no people who do not complain about their existence; many even deprive themselves of it to the extent they are able, and the combination of divine and human laws is hardly enough to stop this disorder.