What is the difference between an oligarchy and a democracy?

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"For the real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and when the poor rule, that is a democracy. "

This is from Politics by Aristotle (Forms of Government Book III, Chapters 7-8, last paragraph).

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