"Power is the near neighbour of necessity."
— Pythagoras

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in Aurea Carmina (8) by Hierocles of Alexandria, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 356