The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the causes of its own destruction.[Le corps politique, aussi bien que le corps de l’homme, commence à mourir dès sa naissance, et porte en lui-même les causes de sa destruction.]
Source:(Wordsworth Editions Ltd., ed. 1998), Book III, Chapter 11. The Dissolution of the Body Politic, Page 89
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