It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the… — Aristotle

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Politics · 350 BC
★ 2.2
Provenance
Current citation
Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.
Original citation
Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 2.