October 2011
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“For I tell you there is far more serious risk in the purchase of doctrines than...”
– From Pythagoras, Plato
“We have a form of government, not fetched by imitation from the laws of our...”
– Pericles’ funeral oration, from The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides (trans. Hobbes)
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Solon on government
This it is that my heart biddeth me tell the Athenians, and how that even as ill-government giveth a city much trouble, so good rule maketh all things orderly and perfect, and often putteth fetters upon the unrighteous; aye, she maketh the rough smooth, checketh excess, confuseth outrage; she withereth the springing weeds of ruin, she straighteneth crooked judgments, she mollifieth proud...