The wild beast attacks the solitary man, but shrinks from the unison of men together.

Around the home-fire, that lowly fawning deity, it means the multiplication of the warmth and even of the poor riches of its halo.

Among the ambushes of broad daylight, it means the better distribution of the different forms of labor; among the ambushes of night, it stands for that of tender and identical sleep.

All lone, lost words blend in an anthem whose murmur rises in the valley from the busy animation of morning and evening.
The law which regulates the common good is called the moral law.
Nowhere nor ever has morality any other purpose than that; and if only one man lived on earth, morality would not exist.

It prunes the cluster of the individual's appetites according to the desires of the others.