The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
PlatoHe who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to effeminate. The ideal citizen is the scholar athlete, the man of thought and the man of action.
PlatoLet him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.
Plato