Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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“We are a free democracy, but we are obedient. We obey the laws, especially those which protect the oppressed. We do not allow absorption in our own affairs to interfere with participation in the city's. We differ from other states in regarding the man who holds aloof from public life as useless, yet we yield to none in independence of spirit and complete self-reliance.”

Pericles 495 – 429 BCE via Edith Hamilton
Disprover that all power corrupts
from Thucydides

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Democracy

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