"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 poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him."
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Source: Plato (1938). “Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws”
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