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Public esteem for the best singer, dancer or speaker was the first step to inequality and vice

Drawn from what Jean-Jacques Rousseau said

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  1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Genevan philosopher and writer (1712 to 1778)
    He who sings or dances best; the handsomest, the strongest, the most dexterous, the most eloquent, comes to be the most respected: this was the first step towards inequality, and at the same time towards vice.

    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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