He used to rebuke the citizens for electing always the same men to office. ‘For,’ said he, ‘you will give the impression that you hold office to be of no great worth, or else that you hold not many men to be worthy of office.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life oF M. Cato, chap. viii. (340 D).
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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