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Most true.Athenian
Next after this form of liberty would come that which refuses to be subject to the rulers;1 and, following on that, the shirking of submission to one's parents and elders and their admonitions; then, as the penultimate stage, comes the effort to disregard the laws; while the last stage of all is to lose all respect for oaths or pledges or divinities,—wherein men display and reproduce the character of the Titans of story,
1 Cp. Plat. Rep. 4.424e.
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