"There is an error common to both..." - Quote by Aristotle
There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .
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“Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.”
“Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.”
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“We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.”
“Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.”
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