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Becoming sociable and dependent on others makes a person weak, fearful and mean-spirited

Drawn from what Jean-Jacques Rousseau said

Subjectcourage
What this subject means

courage Acting despite fear: whether it waits for the fear to go, how it is built, and why so few people show it.

What Jean-Jacques Rousseau actually said

  1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Genevan philosopher and writer (1712 to 1778)
    In proportion as he becomes sociable and a slave to others, he becomes weak, fearful, mean-spirited, and his soft and effeminate way of living at once completes the enervation of his strength and of his courage.

    Where this was said

    ↗A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (1755; Harvard Classics translation)gutenberg.org

    c. 1754–1755

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