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Who among the following philosophers said, Man is born free, but everywhere he is in Chains?

  1. Rousseau

  2. Comte

  3. Locke

  4. Hegel
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Explanation

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the French-Swiss philosopher, wrote the famous line 'Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains' in his 1762 work 'The Social Contract.' This quote critiques the contradiction between natural human freedom and social constraints. Locke, Comte, and Hegel were important philosophers but not the authors of this specific quote.

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