An idea from Parallel Lives

Theseus and Romulus were both born to lead, and both failed at it from opposite sides. One slid toward pleasing the crowd, the other toward force. The verdict on both: “Whoever is either too remiss or too strict is no more a king or a governor.”

From Parallel Lives by Plutarch

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