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Plato429–349 BC

Plato on good and evil

The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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Attributed to Plato on the letterhead of the Constitution Party. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations compiled by The Library of Congress. Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications, 2010.

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