"Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, and many which appear to be oligarchical are the ruin of oligarchies. Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state."

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Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath from Stagira. He studied at Plato's Academy and later founded the Lyceum in Athens, where he developed major works in logic, ethics, politics, and natural science.

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