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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“In fact, the real source of all those differences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in the opinion of others; insomuch that it is, if I may say so, merely from their judgment that he derives the consciousness of his own existence.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
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