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• Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.
• Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics." -- French Proverb
• Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics. -- French Proverb
• One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
  -- Plato...
• If you can discover a better way of life than office-holding for your future rulers, a well-governed city becomes a possibility.
  For only in such a state will those rule who are truly rich, not in gold, but in the wealth that makes happiness--a good and wise life....
• Those who labor with their minds govern others; those who labor with their strength are governed by others.
  -- Mencius (Meng-tse) (372?-289? BCE)...
• Power buries those who wield it. -- The Talmud (Yoma, 86 b.)
• Those who are afraid of doing too much always do too little.
• Those who get A's become professors. Those who get B's become judges.
  All the rest make the money. -- Law school maxim...