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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2023

As for the state, it never entered an Athenian’s head that it could interfere with his private life: that it could see, for instance, that his children were taught to be patriotic, or limit the amount of liquor he could buy, or compel him to save for his old age. Everything like that a citizen of Athens had to decide himself and take full responsibility for.
 
Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way [1930]

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