"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."
"Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?"
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Source: Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.6136, Catholic Way Publishing
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