“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

“So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice”

“He who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.”

“Those who tell the stories rule society.”

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”