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Quotation from The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“each man, in giving himself to all, gives himself to nobody”
The Social Contract, Book I, Chapter VI, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913)
Why total alienation to the community does not amount to servitude: each gains over others the same right he yields.
Citation: "each man, in giving himself to all, gives himself to nobody" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book I, Chapter VI, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913). (id the-social-contract-q3)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
