For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all-immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle. (Heraclitus)

For what sense or understanding have they? They follow minstrels and take the multitude for a teacher, not knowing that many are bad and few good. For the best men choose one thing above all-immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.

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