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When somebody said, ‘Don't you trust your fatherland to decide about you ?’he replied, ‘Not I; nor would I trust even my mother, lest in a moment of thoughtlessness she unwittingly cast a black ballot instead of a white one.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades, chap. xxii. (202 D) and Aelian, xiii. 38.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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