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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Gratitude is indeed a duty which we are bound to pay, but which benefactors cannot exact. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Discourse on Inequality Quotes)

Gratitude is indeed a duty which we are bound to pay, but which benefactors cannot exact.[La reconnoissance est bien un devoir qu’il faut rendre, mais-non pas un droit qu’on puisse exiger.]

Source:Discourse on Inequality (1755), (Dover Publications, ed. 2004), Part II, Page 42
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  • Born: June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778
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