ei politikon to hesuchazein anachoresanta poi tes patridos turannoumenes e dia pantos iteon kindunou tes eleutherias peri
whether it is statesmanlike to retire and keep quiet somewhere while one's country is tyrannized, or whether one must go through every danger for the sake of liberty
Source Cicero, Ad Atticum 9.4
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Stoic-Academic political thesis (Ad Att. 9.4).