Luxury is either the effect of wealth or renders it necessary; it corrupts both the rich and the poor, the former by possession, the latter by covetousness. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right Quotes)

Luxury is either the effect of wealth or renders it necessary; it corrupts both the rich and the poor, the former by possession, the latter by covetousness.[Le luxe est l’effet des richesses ou il les rend nécessaires; il corrompt à la fois le riche et le pauvre, l’un par la possession, l’autre par la convoitise.]

Source:(Wordsworth Editions Ltd., ed. 1998), Book III, Chapter 4. Democracy, Page 68
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