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[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
" "[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.
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About Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a major French-speaking Genevan philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.
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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.
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