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All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remains loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant.
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Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.
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Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.
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A rose which varies from the ideal of straightness to a hook or snub may still be of good shape and agreeable to the eye.
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A rose which varies from the ideal of straightness to a hook or snub may still be of good shape and agreeable to the eye.
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It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
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383 BC
Died:
321 BC
(aged 62)
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