The word ‘slavery’ and ...

The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: \
The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.
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It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
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