You are lost, if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong equally to us all, and the earth itself to nobody! - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Discourse on Inequality Quotes)

You are lost, if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong equally to us all, and the earth itself to nobody![Vous êtes perdus si vous oubliez: que les fruits sont à tous, et que la terre n’est à personne!]

Source:Discourse on Inequality (1755), (Dover Publications, ed. 2004), Part II, Page 27
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