Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

Social man lives constantly outside himself.

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.