Socrates quote: Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments ...

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?

~ Socrates ~

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