لا يُقدِم أحد على حرفةٍ لم يتعلّمها، ولو كانت أدناها، ومع ذلك يحسب كلُّ امرئ نفسَه أهلاً لأصعب الحرف جميعاً، وهي الحكم.
النص الأصلي بالإنجليزية
“No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.”Socrates — Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study (1967)