It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.
AristotleIt is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.
AristotleThe same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.
AristotleFor even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.
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