Tyrant Mistrust Quotes by Aristotle

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• Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are…
• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those…
• Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
• Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
• I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
• A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

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