For the greatest penalty for not engaging in politics is to be governed by inferiors.
Athenian statesman
For the greatest penalty for not engaging in politics is to be governed by inferiors.
Athenian statesman
Attributed, though not directly in Thucydides' Funeral Oration.
c. 431 BCE
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