"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."
"Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike."
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Source: Plato (1926). “Cratylus: Parmenides ; Greater Hippias ; Lesser Hippias”, Loeb Classical Library
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