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 There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom 
in the first and chiefest place, read more 
 There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom 
in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, 
but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, 
and this is no longer equal. 
 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my 
perfect right.  
 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my 
perfect right. 
 Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.
 [Fr., Tremblez, tyrans, vous etes immortels.]  
 Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.
 [Fr., Tremblez, tyrans, vous etes immortels.] 
 Is there no tyrant but the crowned one?
 [Fr., N'est-on jamais tyran qu'avec un diademe?]  
 Is there no tyrant but the crowned one?
 [Fr., N'est-on jamais tyran qu'avec un diademe?] 
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
 Tyranny
 Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem
  None rebels except subjects? The prince who
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 Tyranny
 Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem
  None rebels except subjects? The prince who
   Neglects or violates his trust is more
    A brigand than the robber-chief. 
 'Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known:
 Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne.  
 'Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known:
 Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne. 
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of read more
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
 Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that
 Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice--
  The read more 
 Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that
 Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice--
  The weakness and the wickedness of luxury--
   The negligence--the apathy--the evils
    Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants,
     Whose delegated cruelty surpasses
      The worst acts of one energetic master,
       However harsh and hard in his own bearing.