Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote about strength from The Social Contract - The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
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“ The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. ”
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762). copy citation

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Author Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Source The Social Contract
Topic strength duty obedience right
Date 1762
Language English
Reference Of the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Law, Book I
Note Translated by George Douglas Howard Cole
Weblink https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract/Book_I
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“Le plus fort n'est jamais assez fort pour être toujours le maitre, s'il ne transforme sa force en droit et l'obéissance en devoir.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du contrat social

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote about strength from The Social Contract - The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote about strength from The Social Contract - The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.