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“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”

Aristotle · Life

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Men

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He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Nature

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

History

Aristotle

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.

Religion