Freedom is the power to choose our own chains
Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.
Cities are the abyss of the human species.