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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 7.

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Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 7.

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So poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history, for while poetry is concerned with universal truth, history treats of particular facts.

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Aristotle. Περὶ ποιητικῆς Peri poietikês [Poetics]. c. 335 BC.

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Aristotle. Poetics, translated by James Hutton, edited by David Gorman and Michelle Zerba. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

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