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In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the ha...more

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

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They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary o...more

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...[T]he right way is to give one's attention first to the highest good of the young, just as you expect a good gardener to give his attention first t...more

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...in the running of cities, virtually nothing is done by anyone that is conducive to political health, nor is there a single ally with whom one might...more

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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.