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"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."
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"As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed."
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"It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting."
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"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."
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"A tyrant has uncommon moral compass."
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"One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants."
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"I will have thee, as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole,and underwrit: "Here you may see the tyrant, Macbeth."
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"Everybody would be a dictator if he could."
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"It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about."
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"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
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"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."
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"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."
Tyranny
"Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half."
Eating
"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."
Friendship
"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free."
Nation
"We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death."
Death
"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."
Social Issues
"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."
Life
"Laws undertake to punish only overt acts."
Law
"Peace is a natural effect of trade."
Peace
"I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve."
Reading
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