For the greatest penalty for not engaging in politics is to be governed by inferiors.

Athenian statesman

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Context

Attributed, though not directly in Thucydides' Funeral Oration.

Date / Period

c. 431 BCE

Category

Shocking

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Unverifiable

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Method

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