He visto que para obrar el bien con placer era preciso que actuase libremente, sin coacción, y que para privarme de toda la dulzura de una buena obra… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Emerging society gave way to the most horrible state of war; since the human race, vilified and desolated, was no longer able to retrace its steps or give up the unfortunate acquisitions it had made, and since it labored only toward its shame by abusing the faculties that honor it, it brought itself to the brink of its ruin. Horrified by the newness of the ill, both the poor man and the rich man hope to flee from wealth, hating what they once had prayed for.

El verdadero objeto de mis confesiones es hacer comprender exactamente mi interior en todas las situaciones.

The story of human nature is a fair romance. Am I to blame if it is not found elsewhere? I am trying to write the history of mankind. If my book is a romance, the fault lies with those who deprave mankind.