The most perfect politician, who has ever existed, is he who has been able to unite the most opposite qualities, and to reconcile the most contradictory interests.
Empiricism, skepticism
Of the Original Contract (Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary)
1748 (first published), 1777 (final edition)
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"It is an infallible maxim, that no man was ever attached to the present order of things, who did not hope to profit by it."
Humorous"The greater part of mankind are more governed by interest than by reason."
Strange & Unusual"All systems of morality, which have hitherto been advanced, are founded on the principle that morality is something real and intrinsic."
Shocking"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."
Strange & Unusual"Barbarous nations display this superiority, by reducing their females to the most abject slavery; by confining them, by beating them, by selling them, by killing them."
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