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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“If I had remained free, obscure, and alone placed in the situation Nature designed me for, I should have done nothing but what was right, for my heart bears not the feeds of any mischievous passion. Had I been invisible and powerful as the Almighty, I should have been benevolent and good like him: it is power and freedom that make good men, weakness and slavery never made any but wicked ones.”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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The Reveries of the Solitary Walker The Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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