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Aristotle quotes on slavery

CHAPTER V But whether any person is such by nature, and whether it is advantageous and just for any one to be a slave or no, or whether all slavery is contrary to nature, shall be considered hereafter; not that it is difficult to determine it upon

general principles, or to understand it from matters of fact; for that some should govern, and others be governed, is not only necessary but useful, and from the hour of their birth some are marked out for those purposes, and others for the other, and there are many species of both sorts
Source: Aristotle, Poetics

Part 5 Since such, then, was the organization of the constitution, and the many were in slavery to the few, the people rose against the upper class
Source: Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution

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