“IT IS a device of tyranny to make the subjects poor, so that the people being busy with their daily affairs may not have leisure to plot against their ruler … Tyranny is a friend of the base; the base are useful for base business, for nail is driven out by nail, as the proverb goes … And it is a mark of a tyrant to dislike anyone that is proud or free-spirited; for the man who shows a free spirit robs tyranny of its superiority and position of mastery.”

— Aristotle’s Politics (1313b-1314a)

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