Tao Te Ching

“The fact that Isocrates was the first to declare that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and the first to urge giving up war as a policy and substituting good will for armed forces, sets him so far in advance of his age that on that score alone, he could not be forgotten.”

— Edith Hamilton 1867 – 1963 CE
from Echo of Greece​, 1957