Political Philosophers

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    “All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”
    —John Arbuthnot (1667–1735)

    “When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.”
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