And over time most likely we would change, too. But the possession of power soon alters their hearts. First they grow indifferent. And so, by too sudden degrees become insolent, rapacious and tyrannical. So that the only way to put them in mind of their former condition, and consequently of the condition of other people, is often to reduce then to it.
Power changes people.
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