Örneğin çocuk gördüğü bir şeyi istiyorsa ve bu da ona verilebilir bir şeyse, o zaman bu şeyi çocuğa getirmektense çocuğu ona götürmek daha doğru olur… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

si las vejaciones de su ministerio, les causan más desastres de los que experimentarían abandonados a sus disensos internos? ¿Qué ganan en esto, si la misma tranquilidad es una de sus desdichas? También hay tranquilidad en los calabozos; ¿basta esto para hacerlos agradables? Los griegos encerrados en la caverna del Cíclope vivían tranquilos aguardando que les llegara el turno para ser devorados.

He was freer and less constrained in the womb; he has gained nothing by birth.

With regard to equality, this word must not be understood to mean that degress of power and wealth should be exactly the same, but rather that with regard to power, it should be incapable of all violence and never exerted except by virtue of status and the laws; and with regard to wealth, no citizen should be so opulent that he can buy another, and none so poor that he is constrained to sell himself.