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Quotation from The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction”
The Social Contract, Book III, Chapter XI, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913)
The opening of the chapter on the death of the body politic.
Citation: "The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book III, Chapter XI, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913). (id the-social-contract-q11)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
