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Quotes from Discourse on Inequality — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1712–1778 France

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If I am bound to do no injury to my fellow-creatures, this is less because they are rational than because they are sentient beings: and this quality, being common both to men and beasts, ought to entitle the latter at least to the privilege of not being wantonly ill-treated by the former.

Discourse on Inequality (1754)

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