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Under the perverted forms of constitution friendship like justice can have but little
scope, and least of all in the worst: there is little or no friendship between ruler and
subjects in a tyranny. For where there is nothing in common between ruler and ruled, there
can be no friendship between them either, any more than there can be justice. It is like
the relation between a craftsman and his tool, or between the soul and the body
[or between master and slave1]: all these instruments
it is true are benefited by the persons who use them, but there can be no friendship, nor
justice, towards inanimate things; indeed not even towards a horse or an ox, nor yet
towards a slave as slave. For master and slave have nothing in common: a slave is a living
tool, just as a tool is an inanimate slave.
1 These words are better omitted, as they anticipate what comes below.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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