Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Quote by Aristotle
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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Aristotle Quotes
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
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- Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
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