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His other associate was Patiños, his secretary, who made the public suffer for any ill-treatment from his master. The remainder of the despot’s household consisted of four slaves, two men and two women. In dress he strove to imitate Napoleon, whom he greatly admired, and when drilling his troops was armed with a large sword and pistols.
Never yet in the history of nations, has despotism sprung out of oligarchic sway! Never yet has democracy but yielded to the first despot’s usurpation! They have not read in vain the annals of past ages, if you have done so, Paullus." "Ha!" he exclaimed, "look they so far ahead? Ambition, then, it is but a new form of ambition?" "Will you denounce them, Paullus?"
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