384–322 BCE · Classical Greek
Plato's student and the most systematic mind of antiquity.
ὁ ἄνθρωπος φύσει πολιτικὸν ζῷον
Original (Greek)
“The human being is by nature a political animal.”
Aristotle, Politics 1253a
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