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The rich and powerful are happy only to the degree that others are deprived

Drawn from what Jean-Jacques Rousseau said

What Jean-Jacques Rousseau actually said

Jean-Jacques Rousseau c. 1754–1755 Genevan philosopher and writer (1712 to 1778)

I could prove, in short, that if we behold a handful of rich and powerful men seated on the pinnacle of fortune and greatness, while the crowd grovel in obscurity and want, it is merely because the first prize what they enjoy but in the same degree that others want it, and that, without changing their condition, they would cease to be happy the minute the people ceased to be miserable.

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↗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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