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Quotation from Politics by Aristotle
“If the state is the organisation of men seeking a common good, power and political position must be given to those who can forward this end”
Politics, Introduction, trans. William Ellis (1912)
The public-domain edition summarizes Aristotle's political standard around common good and capacity.
Citation: "If the state is the organisation of men seeking a common good, power and political position must be given to those who can forward this end" — Aristotle, Politics, Introduction, trans. William Ellis (1912). (id politics-q1)
Virtues: Justice
Portrait: Aristotle Altemps Inv8575, After Lysippos, Public domain.
