If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.


The Social Contract and Discourse (ed. 1947)

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Quotes

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once...

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once...

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once...

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once...