Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.
AristotleIt is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Aristotle[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.
AristotleThe misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.
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