pero no ha dejado de quererme sino al dejar de existir; nuestra amistad sólo ha terminado con su vida. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Meine Leiden sind das Werk der Natur, mein Glück aber ist mein Werk. Was man auch sagen mag, ich bin weise gewesen, denn ich bin glücklich gewesen, sosehr meine Natur es mir zu sein erlaubte.

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.

If I had remained free, obscure, and alone placed in the situation Nature designed me for, I should have done nothing but what was right, for my heart bears not the feeds of any mischievous passion. Had I been invisible and powerful as the Almighty, I should have been benevolent and good like him: it is power and freedom that make good men, weakness and slavery never made any but wicked ones.