Is it not true that when men obtain unlimited power they find themselves at once in the coil of so many troubles that they are compelled to make war upon all their citizens, to hate those from whom they have suffered no wrong whatsoever, to suspect their own friends and daily companions, to entrust the safety of their persons to hirelings whom they have never even seen, to fear no less those who guard their lives than those who plot against them, and to be so suspicious towards all men as not to feel secure even in the company of their nearest kin? Isocrates. On The Peace. Speech 8. Section 112.
Image: A rather disgruntled-looking Praetorian guardsman of the 1st century CE courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Greatbeagle.
Image: A rather disgruntled-looking Praetorian guardsman of the 1st century CE courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Greatbeagle.
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