...the corruption of our written laws and customs was proceeding with startling rapidity. The result was that, whereas at first I had been full of zeal for public life, as I looked at the course of affairs and saw them being swept in all directions by contending currents...

...the corruption of our written laws and customs was proceeding with startling rapidity. The result was that, whereas at first I had been full of zeal for public life, as I looked at the course of affairs and saw them being swept in all directions by contending currents...

...realized "how difficult it is to manage a city's affairs rightly." Indeed, the corruption of the city's laws and customs "was proceeding at such amazing speed...changes and saw how unstable everything was, I became . . . quite dizzy."21 This did not stop him from reflecting on how to make the city more just, but...

...realized "how difficult it is to manage a city's affairs rightly." Indeed, the corruption of the city's laws and customs "was proceeding at such amazing speed that whereas at first 1 had been full of zeal for public life, when 1 noted these changes and saw how unstable everything...

...realized "how difficult it is to manage a city's affairs rightly." Indeed, the corruption of the city's laws and customs "was proceeding at such amazing speed...changes and saw how unstable everything was, I became . . . quite dizzy."21 This did not stop him from reflecting on how to make the city more just, though...