1 month 3 weeks ago
In a democracy ...someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.
▼
Source
source
Book VIII, 8.89 | As quoted in A Historical Commentary on Thucydides: A Companion to Rex Warner’s Penguin Translation, David Cartwright/Rex Warner, University of Michigan Press (1997), p. 298: | In the Richard Crawley translation, this quote is rendered a
CivilSimian.com created by AxiomaticPanic, CivilSimian, Kalokagathia