"Now the greatest punishment, if one isn’t willing to rule, is to be ruled by someone worse..."

“Now the greatest punishment, if one isn’t willing to rule, is to be ruled by someone worse than oneself. And I think that it’s fear of this that makes decent people rule when they do. They approach ruling not as something good or something to be enjoyed, but as something necessary, since it can’t be entrusted to anyone better than themselves.”

- Socrates

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