government 6
- A city should be as large as self-sufficiency needs but small enough for its rulers to oversee
- The city comes before the individual, and one who needs no society is a beast or a god
Aristotle
Greek philosopher (384 to 322 BCE); studied in Plato's Academy until 347 BCE; founded the Lyceum in Athens in 335 BCE.
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education 3
- Without being raised under right laws, it is hard to get a right training for virtue from youth
- There should be laws on education, and education should be public
happiness 3
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- Democracy is safer and less prone to sedition than oligarchy
- Tyranny, oligarchy and democracy serve one man, the rich or the poor, not the common good
friendship 2
- Good people are thought to grow better through their friendship, each taking the mould of the qualities they admire in the other
- A city of only the very rich and very poor is one of masters and slaves, without friendship