Beware of excess especially in government

The excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction. This is the case not only in the seasons and in vegetable and animal life, but above all in forms of government. Plato. The Republic. Book 8.


Roman Mosaic pavement depicting the struggle between Dionysus and the Indians from the Villa Ruffinella in Tusculum 4th century CE photographed at the Palazzo Massimo in Rome, Italy.

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