"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."
"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
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Source: Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”
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