Pseudo-Xenophon (Old Oligarch), Constitution of the Athenians, chapter 2, section 20

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[20] I pardon the people themselves for their democracy. One must forgive everyone for looking after his own interests. But whoever is not a man of the people and yet prefers to live in a democratic city rather than in an oligarchic one has readied himself to do wrong and has realized that it is easier for an evil man to escape notice in a democratic city than in an oligarchic.

Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 7. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1984.

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