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But those others of them who intermeddle in state
affairs act yet more contradictorily to their own doctrines.
For they govern, judge, consult, make laws, punish, and
honor, as if those were indeed cities in the government of
which they concern themselves, those truly counsellors and
judges who are at any time allotted to such offices, those
generals who are chosen by suffrages, and those laws which
were made by Clisthenes, Lycurgus, and Solon, whom they
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affirm to have been vicious men and fools. Thus even in
the management of state affairs are they at war with themselves.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 4.
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