🌹What a blessed alternative,
To be compelled to dwell
Only with the many bad,
And to be by them hated,
Or not to live at all!
And the more detestable
His actions are to the citizens
The more satellites
And the greater devotion
In them he will require 🌹

🌹Not the sort of purgation
Which the physicians make of the body;
For they take away the worse and leave the better part,
But the tyrant does the reverse. 🌹

🌹And therefore he must look about him and see who is
Valiant, who is high-minded,
Who is wise, who is wealthy, who is happy,
He is the enemy of them all,
And must seek occasion against them
Whether he will or no,
Until he has made a purgation of the State. 🌹

🌹 And the tyrant,
If he means to rule,
Must get rid of them;
He cannot stop while he has
A friend or an enemy
Who is good for anything. 🌹