In fact, the real source of all those differences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows onl… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

الديمقراطية الصحيحة لم توجد قط، ولن توجد أبدًا، إذ مما يعارض طبيعة الأشياء أن تحكم الأغلبية الأقلية

Unii mă vor găsi caraghios, semeţ: puţin îmi pasă! Trebuie să ştiu a înfrunta râsul şi ocara, cu condiţia să nu le merit.

The earth left to its own natural fertility and covered with immense woods, that no hatchet ever disfigured, offers at every step food and shelter to every species of animals. Men, dispersed among them, observe and imitate their industry, and thus rise to the instinct of beasts; with this advantage, that, whereas every species of beasts is confined to one peculiar instinct, man, who perhaps has not any that particularly belongs to him, appropriates to himself those of all other animals, and lives equally upon most of the different aliments, which they only divide among themselves; a circumstance which qualifies him to find his subsistence, with more ease than any of them.