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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: "Cyrop." VII. ii. 22. See Sturz, s.v.
Nay more, not even in the years of plenty,[6] when abundance of all
blessings reigns, not even then may the tyrant's heart rejoice amid
the general joy, for the greater the indigence of the community the
humbler he will find them: that is his theory.
[6] "In good seasons," "seasons of prosperity." Cf. Aristot. "Pol." v.
6. 17.
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He continued: I desire to make known to you, Simonides,[1] those
divers pleasures which were mine whilst I was still a private citizen,
but of which to-day, nay, from the moment I became a tyrant, I find
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