Man was born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) French philosopher and writer
The Social Contract, 1.1 (1762) [tr. Cole (1950)]
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