"In a democracy ...someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it."
— Thucydides

January 1, 1970

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In the Richard Crawley translation, this quote is rendered as follows: "[...] under a democracy a disappointed candidate accepts his defeat more easily, because he has not the humiliation of being beaten by his equals."