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Aristotle1 quote
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. — Aristotle · 350 BCErnest Renan1 quote
To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again-these are the essential conditions for the making of a people. — Ernest Renan · 1882Jean-Jacques Rousseau1 quote
The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the cause of its destruction. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762