 | Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett - 1885 - 482 pages
...classes. Wherefore the city which is com- but by the posed of middle-class citizens is necessarily best governed ; they are, as we say, the natural elements...class of citizens which is most secure in a state, 9 for they do not, like the poor, covet their neighbours' • Cp. PI. Rep. iv. 421 C, D ff. " Laws... | |
 | Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett - 1885 - 466 pages
...classes. Wherefore the city which is com- but by the posed of middle-class citizens is necessarily best governed ; they are, as we say, the natural elements...class of citizens which is most secure in a state, 9 for they do not, like the poor, covet their neighbours' * Cp. PI. Rep. iv. 421 C, D ff. b Laws viii.... | |
 | Aristotle - 1885 - 588 pages
...classes. Wherefore the city which is com- but by the posed of middle-class citizens is necessarily best governed ; % they are, as we say, the natural elements...class of citizens which is most secure in a state, 9 for they do not, like the poor, covet their neighbours' * Cp. PI. Rep. iv. 421 C, D ff. b Laws viii.... | |
 | Aristotle - 1885 - 464 pages
...city which is com- but by the posed of middle-class citizens is necessarily best governed ; dass. c they are, as we say, the natural elements of a state....class of citizens which is most secure in a state, 9 for they do not, like the poor, covet their neighbours' " Cp. PI. Rep. iv. 421 C, D ff. b Laws viii.... | |
 | Aristotle, Benjamin Jowett - 1885 - 468 pages
...city which is com- but by the posed of middle-class citizens is necessarily best governed ; cUss.0 they are, as we say, the natural elements of a state....class of citizens which is most secure in a state, 9 for they do not, like the poor, covet their neighbours' • Cp. PI. Rep. iv. 421 C, D ff. b Laws... | |
 | Aristotle - 1885 - 460 pages
...city which is com- but by the posed of middle-class citizens is necessarily best governed ; ™ass.e they are, as we say, the natural elements of a state....class of citizens which is most secure in a state, 9 for they do not, like the poor, covet their neighbours' ,, * Cp. PI. Rep. iv. 421 C, D ff. b Laws... | |
 | Aristotle - 1921 - 460 pages
...constituted in respect of the elements of which we say the fabric of the state naturally consists.3 And this is the class of citizens which is most secure in a state, for they do not, 30 like the poor, covet their neighbours' goods ; nor do others covet theirs, as the poor covet the... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - 1922 - 112 pages
...the middle classes. Wherefore a city which is composed of middle class citizens is necessarily best governed; they are, as we say, the natural elements...state, for they do not, like the poor, covet their neighbour's goods; nor do others covet theirs, as the poor covet the goods of the rich; and as they... | |
 | R. W. LIVINGSTONE - 1924 - 476 pages
...of citizens which is most secure in a state, for they do not, like the poor, covet their neighbours' goods ; nor do others covet theirs, as the poor covet...themselves plotted against, they pass through life safely. Thus it is manifest that the best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class, and... | |
 | Richard Winn Livingstone - 1924 - 474 pages
...constituted in respect of the elements of which we say the fabric of the state naturally consists. And this is the class of citizens which is most secure...state, for they do not, like the poor, covet their neighbours' goods ; nor do others covet theirs, as the poor covet the goods of the rich ; and as they... | |
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But a city ought to be composed, as far as possible, of equals and similars ; and these are generally the middle classes. Wherefore the city which is composed of middle-class citizens is necessarily best / N. 
