Men remember people's mistakes more readily than their good deeds, and this is appropriate. For just as there is no need to praise one who returns a deposit, but to accuse and punish one who does not, so with the ruler: he was elected not so he could do wrong but so he could do right.
Demócrito DK B265 (= Graham Dmc 374 [F243])
The Texts of Early Greek Philosophy, Cambridge: 2010 (trad.: Daniel Graham).
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