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Concord then refers to
practical ends, and practical ends of importance, and able to be realized by both or all
the parties: for instance, there is concord in the state when the citizens unanimously
decree that the offices of state shall be elective, or that an alliance shall be made with
Sparta, or that Pittacus shall be dictator
（when Pittacus was himself willing to be dictator1）. When each of two persons wishes himself to rule, like the
rivals2 in the
Phoenissae,3 there is discord; since men are not of one mind merely when each thinks the same
thing （whatever this may be） , but when each thinks the same thing in
relation to the same person: for instance, when both the common people and the upper classes
wish that the best people shall rule; for only so can all parties get what they desire.
Concord appears therefore to mean friendship between citizens, which indeed is the
ordinary use of the term; for it refers to the interests and concerns of life.
1 Pittacus was elected dictator of Mitylene early in the sixth century B.C.; he ruled for fourteen years, and then laid down his office. All the citizens wished him to continue, but this was not strictly unanimity or Concord, since there was one dissentient, Pittacus himself.
2 Eteocles and Polyneices.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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