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Quotation from The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“It would take gods to give men laws”
The Social Contract, Book II, Chapter VII, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913)
On the near-impossible qualifications of the Legislator.
Citation: "It would take gods to give men laws" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book II, Chapter VII, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913). (id the-social-contract-q7)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
