“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
