“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
