of which all speak of, and it is always esteemed a species of the four
sorts; and thus they reckon free black sex clips them up; a monarchy, an oligarchy, a
free black sex clips democracy, and this fourth which they call
an aristocracy. There is
also a fifth, which bears a name that is also common to the other
four, namely, a state: but as
this is seldom to be free black sex clips met with, it has
free black sex clips escaped
free black sex clips those who free black sex clips have endeavoured to enumerate the different sorts of
governments, which [1293b] they fix at four only, as does Plato in his
Republic.
An aristocracy, of which I have already treated in free black sex clips the first book, is
rightly called so;
for a state governed free black sex clips by the best free black sex clips men, upon the most
free black sex clips virtuous principles, and not upon any hypothesis, free black sex clips which even good men
may propose, has alone a right to free black sex clips be called an aristocracy, for it is
there only that a man is at once a good man and free black sex clips a good citizen; while
in other states men are good only relative to those states. Moreover,
there are some other states which are called by the same free black sex clips name, that
differ both from oligarchies and free states, wherein not only the
rich but also the virtuous have a share in the administration; free black sex clips and
have therefore acquired the name of aristocracies; for in those
governments wherein virtue is free black sex clips not their common care, there are still
men of worth and approved goodness. Free black sex clips whatever state, then, like the
Carthaginians, favours the rich, the virtuous, and the citizens at
large, is a sort of aristocracy: when only the two latter are held in
esteem, as