Today's bit of ancient wisdom: (I thought this quote was probably appropriate after hearing of the recent appointment to a government post of a dog breeder)
We pretend that we are the wisest of men, but we employ the kind of advisers whom no one could fail to despise, and we place these very same men in control of all our public interests to whom no one would entrust a single one of his private affairs. Isocrates. On The Peace. Speech 8. Section 52.
Image: Messalina by Peder Severin Krøyer, 1881 at the Gothenburg Museum of Art courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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