"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Life consists not in holding good cards，but in playing well those you hold.
In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.