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The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right Quotes

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die from its birth, and contains 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:Book III. Chapter XI. The Dissolution of the Body Politic
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau -The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right Quotes
  • Book: The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right
  • Writer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Genre: Philosophy
  • Published: 1762
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