"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."
"The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use."
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Source: Xenophon, Plato, William Smith, William De Witt Hyde, Henry Sidgwick (2016). “Stoic Six Pack 7: The Sophists”, p.70, Lulu.com
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