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to seek office oneself and not await compulsion is thought disgraceful. But the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.
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[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D1%3Asection%3D347c 347c] | ὁ ἀληθῶς δίκαιος οὐκ ἂν ἴσως ἐθελήσειε πολιτεύεσθαι, ἐὰν μή τις αὐτὸν ἀναγκάσῃ, οὐ τιμῆς οὐδὲ δόξης ἕνεκα, ἀλλ’ ὡς οὐκ ἔστι μὴ πολιτευομένῳ μὴ
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