Cities and states
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cities · city · communities · state · states · fatherland
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Hiero
Political communities and fatherlands that provide protection, law, economic activity, and the public field in which rule is judged.
Furthermore, even a despot must needs love his city, for without the city he can enjoy neither safety nor happiness.
But when a despot harbours suspicion, and, well aware that opposition is on foot, puts the conspirators to death, he knows that he does not exalt the city as a whole;
If commerce also brings gain to a city, the award of honours for diligence in business would attract a larger number to a commercial career.
Memorabilia
Political communities whose flourishing depends on education, self-knowledge, lawful obedience, and civic agreement.
For education would make such beings not only happy in themselves, and successful in the management of their households, but capable of conferring happiness on their fellow-men and on states alike.
Among rulers in cities, are you not aware that those who do most to make the citizens obey the laws are the best, and that the city in which the citizens are most obedient to the laws has the best time in peace and is irresistible in war?
Upon my word, you mean to say that you have made a great discovery, if jurymen are to cease from voting different ways, citizens from disputing and litigation, and wrangling about the justice of their claims, cities from quarrelling about their rights and making war;