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 1 1 |  drunken ruler of any sort will ruin ship, chariot, army—anything,
 2 2 |        and also it has been the ruin of the theatre; they ought
 3 3 |      Athenian. But what was the ruin of this glorious confederacy?
 4 3 |  cowardice was the cause of the ruin of the Dorian kings and
 5 3 |      greatest ignorance was the ruin of the Dorian power, and
 6 3 |      now, as then, ignorance is ruin. And if this be true, the
 7 4 | accomplished yet more, and high ruin falls upon us. For the Achaeans
 8 4 |        customs which were their ruin, and the leader of the colony,
 9 4 |         to be on the highway to ruin; but I see that the state
10 6 |        ill–ordered is often the ruin of that which is well–ordered;
11 7 |        a way would be his utter ruin; for the beginning is always
12 7 |     Place and cause a universal ruin—one part drags another down,
13 10|   inflicted on young men to the ruin both of states and families!~
14 11|         of his property, is the ruin of the house, and his son