Plutarch

 

Plutarch (c. 50-120)

“Politicians, too, whose sights are set on glory, are servants of the crowd even though they are called rulers.”

  • On Sparta (Life of Agis, section 1), excerpted from Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, translated by Richard J. A. Talbert. New York: Penguin Classics, 2005.

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