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Quotation from The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Most peoples, like most men, are docile only in youth; as they grow old they become incorrigible”
The Social Contract, Book II, Chapter VIII, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913)
The start of an extended comparison between aged peoples and patients who refuse a doctor's treatment.
Citation: "Most peoples, like most men, are docile only in youth; as they grow old they become incorrigible" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book II, Chapter VIII, trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913). (id the-social-contract-q8)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
