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Romantic love's moral part is a social invention promoted by women to gain command
Drawn from what Jean-Jacques Rousseau said
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- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Genevan philosopher and writer (1712 to 1778)
Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their empire, and secure command to that sex which ought to obey.
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