# Quote — Aristotle, The Politics

> Men ... are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing the evils now existing in states, suits about contracts, convictions for perjury, flatteries of rich men and the like, which are said to arise out of the possession of private property. These evils, however, are due to a very different cause — the wickedness of human nature.

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- Book: [The Politics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/the-politics.md)
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