Beyond these exhortations, they relied on a good political regime to enable human beings to fulfill the capacities that were part of their nature, to train them in virtue, and to restrain them from vice.

可以看出,希腊人依赖一个良好的政治体制,以发挥个人天性中的潜能,去培养他们的美德,去遏制他们的恶习

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