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We should realize that a city is better off with bad laws, so long as they remain fixed, than with good laws that are constantly being altered, that lack of learning combined with sound common sense is more helpful than the kind of cleverness that gets out of hand, and that as a general rule states are better governed by the man in the street than by intellectuals.
Thucydides
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The History of the Peloponnesian War [431–413 b.c.e.], III, 37 (Address of Cleon to the Athenians)
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The History of the Peloponnesian War [431–413 b.c.e.], III, 37 (Address of Cleon to the Athenians)
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