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To the man who urged him to create a democracy in the State his answer was, ‘Do you first create a democracy in your own house.’ 1
1 Repeated in Moralia, 155 D, 22 D, and Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus, chap. xix. (52 A).
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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