Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, Polemics, and Political Economy Quotes

“There is, I feel, an age at which the individual man would want to stop: you will seek the age at which you would desire your Species had stopped. Discontented with your present state for reasons that foretell even greater discontents for your unhappy Posterity, perhaps you would want to be able to go backward in time. This sentiment must be the Eulogy of your first ancestors, the criticism of your contemporaries, and the dread of those who will have the unhappiness to live after you.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, Polemics, and Political Economy