Demagogues have the effrontery to say that because of the care they give to the commonwealth they are not able to give attention to their private interests, although in fact these “neglected” interests have advanced to a degree of affluence which they would never have even dreamed of praying to the gods that they might attain, whereas our people, for whom they pretend to care, are in such straits that not one of our citizens is able to live with pleasure or at ease. Isocrates. On The Peace. Speech 8. Section 127.
Image: Simon Merrells as Marcus Licinius Crassus in Spartacus: War of the Damned (2010) courtesy of STARZ and IMDB
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