The tyrants handed out a measure of wheat, a flagon of wine, a sesterce, and then you should have heard people yell “long live the king!” [Nero]. Those oafs did not stop to think they were getting back part of what was theirs, and the tyrant could not have given had he not taken it away from them earlier. From Etienne de La Boetie. 1530 - 1563
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