Did Aristotle say “Man is by nature a political animal”?

Did Aristotle say “Man is by nature a political animal”?

Found word for word. Yes. The text appears in works attributed to Aristotle. Source and location below.

and self-sufficiency is an end, and a chief good. From these things therefore it is clear that the city-state is a natural growth, and that man is by nature a political animal, and a man that is by nature and not merely by fortune citiless is either low in the scale of humanity or above it (like the clanless, lawless, hearthless man reviled by Homer, for one by nature unsocial is also a lover of w
Politics — Aristotle, 1253a · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library) · source

Now it has been said in our first discourses, in which we determined the principles concerning household management and the control of slaves, that man is by nature a political animal; and so even when men have no need of assistance from each other they none the less desire to live together. At the same time they are also brought together by common interest, so far as each achieves a share of the
Politics — Aristotle, 1278b · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library) · source

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