İnançlarına egemen olan gereksinimleri, şuna ya da buna inandırmaktaki çıkarları, kendilerinin neye inandıklarını öğrenmeye engel oluyor. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Allowing that nature intended we should always enjoy good health, I dare almost affirm that a state of reflection is a state against nature, and that the man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Flattery, or rather condescension, is not always a vice, it is more often a virtue, especially
in young people. The kindness with which a man treats us attaches us to
him; one does not give way to him in order to deceive him, one does so
in order not to make him sad, not to return him harm for good.

Las óperas de Rameau empezaban a meter ruido y dieron a conocer sus obras teóricas, que, habiendo permanecido ignoradas, poseían muy pocos. Por casualidad oí hablar de su Tratado de la armonía,