Where these words come from
- 92% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Politics, Book I, Part II (Bekker 1253a9), Benjamin Jowett translation, 1885 (public domain, MIT Classics Archive).
- Politics
- c. 350 BCE · Athens · lecture notes on human nature, delivered at the Lyceum
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