An idea from Laws

Three Dorian kingdoms swore oaths and two quickly collapsed, from the worst ignorance: hating what you judge good and loving what you know is wrong. Give anything too big a sail and it capsizes. Sparta survived because its power was split: two kings, 28 elders, then ephors.

From Laws by Plato

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