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Author : Jean Jacques Rousseau
: The Social Contract, or the Principles of Right
Text :
A king is so far from furnishing his subjects with their subsistence that he gets his own only from them; and, according to Rabelais, kings do not live on nothing. Do subjects then give their persons on condition that the king takes their goods also? I fail to see what they have left to preserve.
From : Book 1, Chapter 4..
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