Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
PlatoAnd may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
PlatoThose who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.
PlatoWhen the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.
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