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The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right Quotes

To renounce one's liberty is to renounce one's quality as a man, the rights and also the duties of humanity. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right Quotes)

To renounce one’s liberty is to renounce one’s quality as a man, the rights and also the duties of humanity.[Renoncer à sa liberté c’est renoncer à sa qualité d’homme, aux droits de l’humanité, même à ses devoirs.]

Source:(Wordsworth Editions Ltd., ed. 1998), Book I, Chapter 4. Slavery, Page 10
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right Quotes)
  • Book: The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right
  • Writer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Genre: Philosophy
  • Published: 1762
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