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For the benefit of the inferior
“The authority to judge is not given for the sake of the judge, but for the sake of the person judged. A superior is never appointed for his own benefit, but for the benefit of the inferior, and a doctor for the sick, not for himself. All authority, like all art, has its end outside…
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Abundance
“There is nothing so hampering, so cloying, as abundance.” I.42 (p. 235)
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Fit to command
“Moreover, Cyrus used to say that no man is fit to command who is not better than those he commands.” I.42 (p. 234)
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An extreme disparity between them
“…Our practice is so blind that we make little or no account of it; whereas if we consider a peasant and a king, a nobleman and a plebeian, a magistrate and a private citizen, a rich man and a pauper, there immediately appears to our eyes an extreme disparity between them, though they are different,…