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The Mask that Power Wears

Xenophon and the world of power.

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Pedro L. Gonzalez
Feb 02, 2021
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“And so a wise prince must think of a way by which his citizens, always and in every quality of time, have need of the state and of himself; and then they will always be faithful to him.” - Machiavelli

Reading The Education of Cyrus by Xenophon made an impression on me at a time when I was ideologically treading water, figuring things out in my own think…

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