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Surely it is hardly fitting that the ruler should be baser than the ruled.

was it not obvious that flocks and herds were more ready to obey their keepers than men their rulers

When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves.

Only it seems to me a grievous error in a ruler to quarrel with all his subjects at once.