How to Compete Quotes

“We do not consider the city to be structures, such as walls and temples and docks, but those are, so to speak, a kind of stable and immovable body for the shelter and security of the governed. We place all authority in the citizens because they are the ones who fill it, arranging and prescribing and keeping watch over each matter; like the mind is in each of us.”
― Lucian of Samosata, How to Compete: An Ancient Guide to the Virtues of Sports