More great quotes found in my Wordsmith daily newsletters:

"The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be
governed by men worse than themselves."

- Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one
where they sprang up."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice (1841-1935)

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

- Victor Hugo, poet, novelist, and dramatist (1802-1885)

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics
won't take an interest in you."

- Pericles, statesman (430 BCE)

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that
one's work is terribly important."

- Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970)

Thanks, A Word a Day!