Only a small city, small enough to be governed by relations of trust, can be political, in Aristotle's sense of the term.

仅有一座小城，小到能由信任的关系来管治，才能称作是政治社会，这是以亚里士多德的标准看来。

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There can be no relations of trust in a large, imperial despotism.

那样的社会可以不需信任的关系,存在于大型，帝国的专制之中。

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A society that leads to our perfection that leads us to complete and perfect our telos must be held together by bonds of trust, of friendship, of camaraderie.

一个引领我们完善的社会,引领我们完成,并完善我们，Telos，的社会,必需是由信任，友爱及同志情谊所共构。

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