“I advise the citizens to revere
Neither anarchy nor despotism
And never to cast fear out of the city completely.”
τὸ μήτ’ ἄναρχον μήτε δεσποτούμενον
ἀστοῖς περιστέλλουσι βουλεύω σέβειν,
καὶ μὴ τὸ δεινὸν πᾶν πόλεως ἔξω βαλεῖν.
Aeschylus, Eumenides 696-7: On Middle Grounds in Politics