Saturday, May 04, 2024
If the Blind Lead the Blind, Both Shall Fall Into the Ditch
Plutarch, To an Uneducated Ruler 2 = Moralia 780 B (tr. Harold North Fowler):
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For one who is falling cannot hold others up, nor can one who is ignorant teach, nor the uncultivated impart culture, nor the disorderly make order, nor can he rule who is under no rule.
οὔτε γὰρ πίπτοντός ἐστιν ὀρθοῦν οὔτε διδάσκειν ἀγνοοῦντος οὔτε κοσμεῖν ἀκοσμοῦντος ἢ τάττειν ἀτακτοῦντος ἢ ἄρχειν μὴ ἀρχομένου.
