Our people, who are told by the sycophants that they ought to rule over the rest of the world, are worse off than those who are slaves to oligarchy, while these men, who had no advantage to start with, have risen because of our folly from a mean to an enviable position. Isocrates. On The Peace. Speech 8. Section 125.
Image: The multitude salute the Spartan general Lysander with loud acclamations during the Peloponnesian War from a public domain book of ancient Greek history courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Finn Bjørklid.
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