I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.
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.
Plato