Quote by: Polybius

For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.


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  • NamePolybius
  • DescriptionGreek historian
  • Born206 BCE
  • Died124 BCE
  • CountryAncient Greece
  • ProfessionMathematician; Historian; Writer