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'''A man is known by the birds he flocks together'''.
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== Plato ==
"By Zeus, I shall tell you just how it looks to me, Socrates, he said. Some of us who are about the same age often meet together and keep up the old proverb."
—Allan Bloom translation


== Aristotle ==
== Aristotle ==

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A man is known by the birds he flocks together.

Plato

"By Zeus, I shall tell you just how it looks to me, Socrates, he said. Some of us who are about the same age often meet together and keep up the old proverb."

—Allan Bloom translation

Aristotle

“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”

Aristotle, Politics

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