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When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves.
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Surely it is hardly fitting that the ruler should be baser than the ruled.
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Only it seems to me a grievous error in a ruler to quarrel with all his subjects at once.
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was it not obvious that flocks and herds were more ready to obey their keepers than men their rulers