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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They’re wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We now that crying isn’t a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.