"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."
"Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end."
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Source: Plato (1892). “Republic. Timaeus. Critias”
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