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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4529426, member: 72790"]"No dictator can be that good". This reminds me of the story of Aristides the Just who one day discovered a fellow Athenian trying hard to write Aristides on an ostracon being made ready for a vote of ostracism from Athens. When Aristides asked his fellow citizen, who had no idea that he was talking to Aristides, why he wanted to ostracize a citizen who was widely know as "just", the citizen replied that nobody widely known and called "the just" could possibly be so. Aristides helped him with the spelling and scratching his own name on the ostracon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4529426, member: 72790"]"No dictator can be that good". This reminds me of the story of Aristides the Just who one day discovered a fellow Athenian trying hard to write Aristides on an ostracon being made ready for a vote of ostracism from Athens. When Aristides asked his fellow citizen, who had no idea that he was talking to Aristides, why he wanted to ostracize a citizen who was widely know as "just", the citizen replied that nobody widely known and called "the just" could possibly be so. Aristides helped him with the spelling and scratching his own name on the ostracon.[/QUOTE]
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