'This is really the predicament of men in public life
who respond to the caprices and impulses of mobs:
they make themselves slaves and followers
in order that they may be called
who respond to the caprices and impulses of mobs:
they make themselves slaves and followers
in order that they may be called
leaders of men and rulers.'
—Plutarch, Lives,
—Plutarch, Lives,
Agis and Cleomenes,
1.2