Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
The big tyrants never face justice.
States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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