And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.


The Politics of Aristotle (ed. 1885)

Aristotle Quotes

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing,...

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing,...

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing,...

And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing,...