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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (c. 1712-1778)

“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.”

  • From Book I (chapter 3) in The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The quoted edition was translated and published by the Great Books Foundation (Chicago, Illinois, 1948).

 

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