"You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod."
— Ruler

January 1, 1970

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Solon of Athens, as reported by Diogenes Laërtius (trans. C. D. Yonge) The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (1853), "Solon", sect. 5, p. 25.