"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."
"And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty."
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Source: Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.1764, Booklassic
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