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Quotation from Metaphysics by Aristotle
“the world refuses to be governed badly”
Metaphysics, Book XII (Lambda), Part 10, trans. W. D. Ross (1908)
Aristotle's closing objection to theories that make the universe a series of unconnected episodes, followed by Homer's line on the rule of one.
Citation: "the world refuses to be governed badly" — Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book XII (Lambda), Part 10, trans. W. D. Ross (1908). (id aristotle-metaphysics-q11)
