A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

Evils draw men together.