An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

"They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth."

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"Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another."

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"Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike."

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