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“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