It is clear that the best state is that in which the middle class is in control, and that those states are likely to be well-administered, in which the middle class is large, and stronger than both the other classes, or at any rate than either of them separately.
— Aristotle Ancient

Philosopher, logic, natural science

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Politics, Book IV, Chapter 11

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c. 350 BCE

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Controversial

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https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.4.4.html

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