Man’s first language, the most universal, the most energetic and the only language he needed before it was necessary to persuade men assembled togeth… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should govern and that the few should be governed.

The sophism that ruined me is the one made by the majority of men,
who complain about lacking strength when it is already too late to make use of it.
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Virtue costs us only through our own fault, and if we always wanted to be wise, we would rarely need to be virtuous. But inclinations that would be
easy to overcome sweep us away without resistance:
we give way to slight temptations whose danger we scorn

Estas cadenas no me parecieron, sin embargo, muy pesadas, en tanto en cuanto, ignorado por el público, viví en la oscuridad.