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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 1.

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Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1.

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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 6.

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Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 6.

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No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 5.

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Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 5.

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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 4.

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This only is denied even to God,
The power to make what has been done undone.

Agathon

Quoted in The Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle

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Agathon. Quoted in Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia [Nicomachean Ethics], written by Aristotle. c. 350 BC, bk. 6.

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Agathon. Quoted in Nicomachean Ethics, written by Aristotle, translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing Company, 2019, bk. 7, ch. 2.

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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

Phocylides

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Phocylides. Quoted in Politics, written by Aristotle. 4th century BC, bk. 4.

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Phocylides. Quoted in Politics, written by Aristotle, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 4.

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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Aristotle. Περὶ ζῴων μορίων [Parts of Animals]. c. 350 BC.

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Aristotle. "Parts of Animals I." Aristotle: Generation of Animals & History of Animals 1, Parts of Animals 1, translated by C. D. C. Reeve. Hackett Publications, 2019.

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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 1.

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Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1.

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The guest will judge better of a feast than a cook.

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 4.

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Well begun is half done.

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 5.

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The soul is in a way all existing things.

On the Soul

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Aristotle. De Anima [On the Soul]. c. 350 BC, bk. 3, ch. 8.

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Aristotle. "On the Soul." On the Soul and Other Psychological Works, edited by Fred D. Miller Jr. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 3, ch. 8.

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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 2.

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Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

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For if liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 4.

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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake.

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 5.

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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they might be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 5.

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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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Aristotle. Ἠθικὰ Εὐδήμεια [Eudemian Ethics]. c. 350 BC.

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Aristotle. The Eudemian Ethics, translated by Anthony Kenny. Oxford University Press, 2011.

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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must either be a beast or a god.

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 1.

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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse of time.

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Aristotle. Φυσικὴ ἀκρόασις Phusike akroasis [Physics]. 4th century BC.

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Aristotle. Physics, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.