There is, I feel, an age at which an individual man would want to stop. You will seek the age at which you would want your species to have stopped. D… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The former breathes only peace and liberty; he desires only to live and be free from labor; even the ataraxia of the Stoic falls far short of his profound indifference to every other object.

mas también con la satisfacción interior, que experimentaba por vez primera, de poder decirme: “Merezco mi propia estimación; sé preferir mi deber a mi placer”.

If we chose always to be wise we should rarely need to be virtuous. But inclinations which we could easily overcome irresistibly attract us. We give in to slight temptations and minimize the danger. We fall insensibly into dangerous situations, from which we could easily have safeguarded ourselves, but from which we cannot withdraw without heroic efforts which appal us. So finally, as we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because I made you strong enough not to fall in.