The most perfect politician, who has ever existed, is he who has been able to unite the most opposite qualities, and to reconcile the most contradictory interests.
Empiricism, skepticism
Of the Original Contract (Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary)
1748 (first published), 1777 (final edition)
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