It is a mark of a tyrant to have men of foreign extraction rather than citizens as guests at table and… — Aristotle
It is a mark of a tyrant to have men of foreign extraction rather than citizens as guests at table and companions, feeling that citizens are hostile but strangers make no claim against him.
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