![If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.](/assets/img/quote-photos/if-they-plato-and-aristotle-wrote-about-politics-it-was-as-if-to-lay-down-rules.jpg)
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