In his early days he has a smile and a kind word for everyone; he says he's no tyrant, makes large promises, public and private, frees debtors, distributes land to the people and to his own followers, and puts on a generally mild and kindly air.引自第388页But I think we shall find that when he has disposed of his foreign enemiesby treaty or destruction, and has no more to fear from them, he will in the first place continue to stir up war in order that the people may continue to need a leader引自第388页And the high level of war taxation will also enable him to reduce them to poverty and force them to attend to earning their daily bread rather than to plotting against him引自第388页Finally if he suspects anyone of having ideas of freedom and not submitting to his rule, he can find an excuse to get rid of them by handing them over to the enemy. For all these reasons a tyrant must always be provoking war引自第388页
Then he kills everyone that is against him, esp those with courage, wealth, intelligence - purge. He is stuck btw 1. worthless companions; 2. all of whom hae him and an inevitable death.
9. The tyrannical character: Its essential similarity to the criminal type
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one poltical system springs up from the other, does he believe that it is bound to be that? like the course of development