Despots
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despots · great despot · despot · great ruler · head · heads of states · rulers
in the texts
Hiero
Rulers holding despotic power, presented first as seemingly fortunate and then as fearful, isolated, and reformable.
To this Hiero answered:
One is a ruler, the other a citizen.
but the despot can never feel sure that he is loved.
Memorabilia
Rulers used as a paradoxical example of people who can be poor despite power.
Therefore, if that is so, we will include despots in the people, and men of small means, if they are thrifty, in the rich.
Yes, certainly — thanks for reminding me — I know, in fact, of some despots even who are driven to crime by poverty, just like paupers.